Monet and Renoir painted scenes of bathers at La Grenouillère, a popular summer resort on the Seine River outside Paris in 1869. Their paintings depicted the lively atmosphere of people relaxing and boating. Other artists like Manet captured Parisians enjoying summer activities in the city, such as concerts in the Tuileries Gardens. Throughout the 1860s-1880s, Impressionist artists frequently depicted leisure scenes of summer outings, capturing the effects of light and atmosphere in their works.

1. Summer

2. Claude Monet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Édouard Manet

4. the summer of 1869:
Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère,
a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far from Paris …

5. La Grenouillere (Frog-Pool)
a floating restaurant and boat-hire on the Seine at Croissy-sur-Seine,
it had become during the 1860's a popular place for Parisians, who enjoyed the rural surroundings.
Not long before Monet arrived, the resort had just received a visit from Emperor Napoleon III and his family.
“Le Camembert”
Renoir and Monet place their easels in the same place and paint the same scenes.
They also take the same perspective.
They immortalize "the Camembert" (also called "the flowerpot"), a small island with a tree.

7. Claude Monet
Bain à la Grenouillère
La Grenouillère
1869
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
the ripples on the water, the foliage, the boats, the human figures …

12. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
La Grenouillère
1869
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Renoir's is livelier, more picturesque ...
people are bathing,
sailboats, canoes,
a group of men in suits and women wearing crinolines have sought shade beneath a tree on the little artificial island
known as Camembert or the flowerpot

17. Claude Monet
Baigneurs à la Grenouillère
Bathers at La Grenouillère
1869
The National Gallery, London
a bright and colourful portrayal of the pleasures of a summer’s day, with people enjoying themselves in the sun-dappled light ...

23. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Baignade dans la Seine (La Grenouillere)
Bathing on the Seine (La Grenouillere)
1869
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Parisians strolling along the bank, bathers, and sailing boats gliding over the water ...
the small vibrating brushstrokes merely intimate the figures of people, the green of the trees and the glinting sunlight in the water ...

28. Claude Monet
La Plage de Trouville
The Beach at Trouville
1870
National Gallery, London
the play of light and shade ...
Monet's wife Camille, her face shaded, is dressed in a loose white outfit, and holds aloft a white parasol.
Madame Boudin, dressed in black, with a black umbrella, with her attention focused on her book.

34. Claude Monet
La Promenade, La Femme à l'ombrelle
Woman with a Parasol, Madame Monet and Her Son
1875
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
a moment on a stroll on a summer's day
a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait ...
Camille Monet and their son Jean in Argenteuil

40. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Le déjeuner des canotiers
Luncheon of the Boating Party
1880-1881
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
a group of Renoir's friends relaxing on a balcony at the Maison Fournaise restaurant along the Seine river in Chatou ...
Renoir's future wife, Aline Charigot, with a small dog, an affenpinscher;
the proprietor's daughter Louise-Alphonsine Fournaise and her brother, Alphonse Fournaise, Jr;
Charles Ephrussi, wealthy amateur art historian, collector, wearing a top hat,
and attired in a brown coat and cap, Jules Laforgue, a poet and critic;
actress Ellen Andrée drinks from a glass, seated across from her is Baron Raoul Barbier, former mayor of colonial Saigon;
Eugène Pierre Lestringez, a bureaucrat, and Paul Lhote, himself an artist, flirting with the actress Jeanne Samary;
actress Angèle Legault, Italian journalist Adrien Maggiolo
and
Gustave Caillebotte, a white boater's shirt and flat-topped straw boater's hat, an art patron, painter, and important figure
in the impressionist circle and an avid boatman

47. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Dance in the Moulin de la Galette
1876
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
one of the most famous Impressionist paintings and a dazzling example of Renoir's talent for capturing dappled light ...
a typical Sunday afternoon at the Moulin de la Galette
artists, writers, journalists, models, milliners, and waitresses:
Estelle, the sister of Renoir's favorite model Jeanne,
painters Pierre-Franc Lamy and Norbert Goeneutte, Georges Riviere
and
the vivacious and joyful atmosphere, the carefree mood and the agreeable warmth of the sunlight filtering through the leaves

54. Édouard Manet
Claude Monet peignant dans son atelier
Claude Monet painting in his studio
1874
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
a sunny summer day …
Claude Monet painting in his 'studio-boat'

59. Edouard Manet
Musique aux Tuileries
Music in the Tuileries
1862
The National Gallery, London
a crowd of music-lovers in the Tuileries Gardens
the fashionable elite of the Second Empire
the ladies' golden hats and dresses,
the gentlemen dressed in blacks, top hats and frock coats merging with the trunks
Manet and the painter Albert de Balleroy, sculptor and critic Zacharie Astruc;
Manet's brother Eugène Manet, the composer Jacques Offenbach;
critic Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire ...
a example of modern painting due to its subject matter and technique

65. Edouard Manet
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
The Luncheon on the Grass
1863
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
a lightly clad woman bathing in a stream
a basket of fruit, a round loaf of bread, woman's clothes
and
a nude woman casually lunching with two fully dressed men
… testimony to Manet's refusal to conform to convention and his initiation of a new freedom from traditional subjects
and modes of representation - can perhaps be considered as the departure point for Modern Art

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Summer (with Monet, Renoir, Manet)
L’été (avec Monet, Renoir, Manet)
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