Why it matters
Monet painted the floating restaurant and boat-hire of La Grenouillère on the Seine, with the little island nicknamed 'the Camembert'. Renoir accompanied him and painted the same scene at the same time.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1869.
- Monet wrote to Bazille of his 'dream' of painting the baths of La Grenouillère.
- Both artists were desperately poor at the time.
Based on the Wikipedia article La Grenouillère (Monet) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
