Why it matters
Renoir painted the popular bathing spot and floating restaurant of La Grenouillère on the Seine, sitting side by side with Claude Monet, who painted the same scene. It dates from the early days of Impressionism.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1869.
- It shows the small island nicknamed the 'camembert', with a single tree.
- Both artists were impoverished at the time.
Based on the Wikipedia article La Grenouillère (Renoir) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
