La Grenouillère (1869)

La Grenouillère (SORR-1869)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)

La Grenouillère
1869
Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm
Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz”, Winterthur

During the summer of 1869Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far from ParisMonet noted on September 25, “I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillère, for which I have made some bad sketches, but it is only a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.” (MET)

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Monet, Claude (1840-1926)
La Grenouillère
1869
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York

 

 

Monet, Claude (1840-1926)
La Grenouillère
1869
National GalleryLondon

 

 

Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919)
La Grenouillère
1869
NationalmuseumStockholm

 

 

Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919)
La Grenouillère
1869
Pushkin MuseumMoscow