The Cliff Walk at Pourville is an 1882 painting by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet. It currently resides at the Art Institute of Chicago. It is a landscape painting featuring two women atop a cliff above the sea.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cliff_Walk_at_Pourville
Renoir’s people seem to stand on a forest floor of blossoms. The girl on the swing could be fifteen, her pink dress with a hat on head increases the charm of painting.[1] The quivering light is rendered by the patches of pale colour, particularly on the clothing and the ground. This particularly annoyed the critics when the painting was shown at the Salon of 1877.
The model was Jeanne Samary, a favourite of Renoir’s who appears in many of his paintings. The two men are Renoir’s brother Edmond and a painter friend Norbert Goeneutte (also appearing in Bal).
In this view of Vétheuil, seen from the opposite bank of the Seine, the flicker of individual brushstrokes reflects Monet’s concern with recording sensations of color and light as accurately as possible. Ironically, this practice resulted in paintings of an increasingly abstract nature. Indeed, the imagery nearly dissolves in the myriad touches of paint.
Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437111
Bain à la Grenouillère is an 1869 painting by the French impressionist paint, Claude Monet. (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 Croissy-sur-Seine. He was accompanied by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who also painted the scene at the same time.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_%C3%A0_la_Grenouill%C3%A8re
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (31 July 1844, Mont-Saint-Père – 28 July 1925, Paris) was a French naturalist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work.
He was a student of Lecoq de Boisbaudran, he gained recognition after his show in the Paris Salon in 1864. His many awards include the French Legion of Honour (1884) and the Grand Prize at the Exposition Universelle in 1889.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Augustin_Lhermitte
Random Writings on the Bathroom Wall