Bathers at La Grenouillère (Les Bains de la Grenouillère), c. 1869 by Claude Monet

Bathers at La Grenouillère, painted by Claude Monet in 1869, captures the popular river-bathing resort west of Paris, where moored rowboats crowd a wooden jetty and small figures gather on the floating platforms and shoreline in dappled summer light. Painted side-by-side with Pierre-Auguste Renoir during the summer of 1869, this rapid oil sketch was one of several studies Monet made at the site in preparation for a large Salon painting, and its broken brushwork and unmodulated color are now seen as a founding moment of Impressionism.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1869.

Bathers at La Grenouillère (Les Bains de la Grenouillère), c. 1869 by Claude Monet. Foundational Impressionist Wall Art Canvas Print.