Bathers at La Grenouillere 1869, by Claude Monet Canvas Print

Full title: Bathers at La Grenouillere 1869, by Claude Monet Such a masterpiece as this, is simply gorgeous on gallery wrap canvas which can be mounted on the wall as is, or sent to your favorite frame shop for high-end framing. TIP: A great custom gift set awaits! Look for matching or similar products from the GalleryGifts, Fine Art Classics section. Monet wrote on September 25, 1869, "I do have a dream, a painting (tableau), the baths of La Grenouillère, for which I have made some bad sketches (pochades), but it is only a dream. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting." Monet and Renoir, both desperately poor, were quite close at the time. The painting here and one in the London National Gallery (Bathers at La Genouillère, oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm) are probably the sketches mentioned by Monet in his letter. A bigger size painting, now lost but formerly in the Arnhold collection in Berlin, may well have been the "tableau" that he dreamed of. The broad, constructive brushstrokes here are clearly those of a sketch. For his exhibition pictures Monet usually sought a more delicate and carefully calibrated surface at this time. An almost identical composition of the same subject by Renoir is in the National museum, Stockholm. The two friends were undoubtedly working side by side. Source: Wikipedia.org