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La Grenouillère (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 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far…

La Grenouillère (1869)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 59 x 80 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far from Paris. Monet noted on September 25, “I…

La Grenouillère (1869)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 66.5 x 81 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm In the short story, Paul’s mistress, the French author Guy de Maupassant describes the floating café La Grenouillère in a Paris suburb: “In the environs…

La Grenouillère (1869)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Grenouillère (Bathers at La Grenouillère) 1869 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm National Gallery, London During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far…

La Grenouillère (1869)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 74.6 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on…

Régates à Sainte-Adresse (1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Régates à Sainte-Adresse (Regatta at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 101.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet spent the summer of 1867 at Sainte-Adresse, a well-to-do suburb of Le Havre on the Normandy…

Pallade e il Centauro (c.1482)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pallade e il Centauro (Pallas and the Centaur) c.1482 Tempera on canvas, 207 x 148 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Like Botticelli’s other paintings with a mythological subject, this work too, showing the young woman armed with a battle…

Nastagio degli Onesti III (1483)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, third episode 1483 Mixed method on panel, 83.5 x 142.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is the story of…

Nastagio degli Onesti I (1483)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, first episode 1483 Mixed method on panel, 82.3 x 139 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is…