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2 unusual facts about Bain à la Grenouillère


Bain à la Grenouillère

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.

An almost identical composition of the same subject by Renoir is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.



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