Guess the painting from the close-up

Put your art knowledge to the test by identifying this painting from the National Gallery

Bathers at La Grenouillère (1869) by Claude MonetThe National Gallery, London

Do you recognise this famous painting? As you zoom out, more details will emerge. Let's see if you can guess the artwork before the full reveal...

Here we see what appears to be two well-dressed ladies near a small structure. They seem to be outside, but where are they? Let's keep looking.

Spontaneous and broad strokes of colour are very much a signature style of this artist's works. Any idea who that might be?

Here we see people swimming and enjoying a lake? A river? Are those boats in the background? The way this work has been painted can make it hard to decipher its details close up.

Plenty of boats to see, so we're on the right track. Let's zoom out and see which painting we have here.

Did you recognise it?

It's Monet's 'Bathers at La Grenouillère'.

This painting depicts a popular boating and bathing establishment on the Seine river near Bougival to the west of Paris – this resort even had an adjacent floating café.  

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