"La Grenouillere"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Oil On Canvas - 67 x 81 cm - 1869 - (Oskar Reinhart Collection (Switzerland))
La Grenouillère was a popular working class resort consisting of a spa, a boating establishment and a floating café. Optimistically promoted as "Trouville-sur-Seine", it was located on the Seine near Bougival, easily accessible by train from Paris and had just been favoured with a visit by Emperor Napoleon III 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.