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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR - LA GRENOUILLERE
Renoir,
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La Grenouillère, 1868 |
- 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 and to the fashionable La Grenouillère floating restaurant and boat-hire at Croissy-sur-Seine near Bougival.
- 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.
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Monet 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.' Among their various depictions of the subject.
(Wikipedia)
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