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369:'s 1881 short story "La femme de Paul". It is described as a place where "we smell, deep in our nostrils, the world's froth, all its distinguished scoundrels, the mould of Parisian society: a mixture of salesmen, show offs, lowly journalists, chaperoned young men, corrupt amateurs of the stock exchange, cretinous party animals, desiccated old pleasure seekers; a shady crowd of all suspect beings, half well known, half lost, half greeted, half dishonoured, swindlers, rascals, suppliers of women, lords of industry with a dignified look, the look of a blusterer which seems to be saying: "The first one that calls me a rogue, I'll bust him"." 336: 290: 212: 168: 151: 38: 318:, 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, 383:, Monet concentrated on repetitive elements – the ripples on the water, the foliage, the boats, the human figures – to weave a fabric of brushstrokes which, although emphatically brushstrokes, retain a strong descriptive quality. 254:. (Oil on canvas, 74.6 cm x 99.7 cm). It depicts "Flowerpot Island", also known as the Camembert, and the gangplank to La Grenouillère, a floating restaurant and boat-hire on the Seine at 350:
La Grenouillère was a popular middle-class resort consisting of a spa, a boating establishment and a floating café. Optimistically promoted as "Trouville-sur-Seine", it was located on the
1023: 525:, ColourLex. Contains information on all paintings by Monet and Renoir painted in La Grenouillère and also a pigment analysis of the painting in the National Gallery in London. 314:, 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 1417: 855: 1336: 887: 664: 516:, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this painting (145-149) 286:, 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. 426:
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet. Biographie et catalogue raisonné. Lausanne, Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Fondation Wildenstein, p. 135.
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with his wife and son. Monet and Renoir both recognized in La Grenouillère an ideal subject for the images of leisure they hoped to sell.
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Libres horizons: pour une approche comparatiste, lettres francophones imaginaires : hommage à Arlette et Roger Chemain
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Danielle Pastor Lloret: "Vers de nouveaux horizons." pp. 225-238, in
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Monet wrote on September 25, 1869 in a letter to fellow artist
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74.6 cm (29.4 in) × 99.7 cm (39.3 in)
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