Shop art print and framed art The Frog Pond by Claude Monet

Bain à la Grenouillère is a painting by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, painted in 1869. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Grenouillère was a bathing restaurant on the Seine. It was frequented by the Parisian petite bourgeoisie. The painting is said to have been exhibited at the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876. The painting depicts Le Camembert, an islet planted with a single tree and linked to the pontoon boat by narrow, slippery planks... leading to falls and unexpected bathing! A painting with the same subject, entitled La Grenouillère, was painted the same year by Auguste Renoir. Painted on the island of La Grenouillère, at the restaurant La Grenouillère, the two paintings are reproduced at the place where they were created on the Chemin des Impressionnistes. The Impressionist painting technique was invented in the summer of 1869, when Renoir and Monet painted La Grenouillère on the island of [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« The Frog Pond » is kept at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

 

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