The Duck Pond

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1873

Oil on canvas

Dallas Museum of Art

Renoir and Monet began portraying the same landscape in 1869, when they simultaneously painted at the famous waterside café La Grenouillère (The Frogpond) at Bougival. This collaboration has often been analyzed and used to point out the real aesthetic differences between the two artists - Monet, the painter of light and water, and Renoir, the painter of the human form. The two artists painted together on many subsequent occasions. In 1873, they made a single excursion during which Renoir painted two landscapes and Monet completed one. The Reves "Duck Pond" is one of this trio of paintings; Renoir's second also resides in Dallas, in