La Grenouillère Explained

La Grenouillère
Medium:oil on canvas
Artist:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Year:1869
Height Metric:66
Width Metric:81
Museum:Nationalmuseum
City:Stockholm

La Grenouillère is an 1869 oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. It shows the "camembert", a small island planted with a single tree, linked by gangplanks to the Île de la Grenouillère (left, out of picture) and to the fashionable La Grenouillère floating restaurant and boat-hire at Croissy-sur-Seine near Bougival.

It was painted in the early days of Impressionism, at the same time as Claude Monet's Bain à la Grenouillère, with the two impoverished friends and fellow artists sitting side by side.[1]

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References

  1. Book: Anthony Lacoudre. Ici est né l'impressionnisme : guide de randonnées en Yvelines. Claude Bonin-Pissarro (preface). Éd. du Valhermeil. 2003. 9782913328419. 35. fr.