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La Grenouillère, 1869 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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La Grenouillère, painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1869, depicts the crowded round bathing platform nicknamed “the camembert” at the fashionable Seine resort of Croissy-sur-Bougival, where elegantly dressed visitors mingle beneath the trees while bathers wade in the water and a small rowboat rests at the water's edge. Rendered with rapid, broken brushstrokes and high-keyed color straight from the tube, the canvas dissolves solid forms into flickers of reflected light on the moving river. Painted in the summer of 1869 while Renoir worked alongside Claude Monet at the same spot, it stands as one of the pivotal canvases that launched Impressionism.
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Date: 1869.
La Grenouillère, 1869 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Impressionist Seine Canvas Print.
A note on this reproduction: this print renders in bright, warm, sunlit tones, with a golden-green glow across the water and foliage, the lightest and most luminous of the reproductions of this painting we carry. Other reproductions of this same painting, with slightly different color rendering, are also available in our collection.