Print of Claude Monet - Bathers at La Grenouillère - 1869
Claude Monet - Bathers at La Grenouillère
Year: 1869 - oil on canvas cm 92x73
Preserved at: National Gallery, London, England.
Claude Monet painted Bathers at La Grenouillère, the haunt of many Parisians on the shady banks of the Seine, in 1869. The place was known as La Grenouillère, the "pond of frogs" due to the presence not so much of the well-known amphibians, but rather of cheerful women and flirtatious, perhaps even a little libertine, which delighted Parisian visitors and were nicknamed "frogs" (Grenouilles).
The subject reproduces in the foreground some wooden boats moored to a couple of piers. On the left, on the shore, some women with colorful high-necked dresses; on the long pier two women in bathing suits chatting with a man in a jacket and hat.
Particularly hypnotic is the effect, the movement that Claude Monet manages to give to the river water: with rapid and decisive brushstrokes he creates very suggestive ripples and reflections.
