La Grenouillère, Renoir

It describes a landscape flooded with water. It is about a popular urban swimming spot near Paris, frequented by Claude Monet and Renoir, where they spent time comparing their compositions and practicing the depiction of light on water. They competed to see who could capture it with greater eloquence. Renoir's version is made with shorter and faster brushstrokes, using the colors straight from the paint tube. For his contemporaries, this painting was unfinished; however, today it is considered a classic example of Impressionism.