La Grenouillere by Claude Monet
Claude Monet painted La Grenouillere in 1869. La Grenouillere was a floating cafe built on a raft linked by a ramp to the Ile de Croissy on the Seine. To paint this popular resting place for boaters, Monet sat by his easel alongside that of his friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir. While Renoir concentrated on the activities of the pleasure seekers, Monet's sole interest was the sparkling effect of light reflected on the water.
 Claude Monet's La Grenouillere (29-3/8x39-1/4 inches) is an oil on canvas housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. |
On the next page, see Monet's Landscape Near Zaandam, another of the artist's marine paintings.
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