The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles described a day trip to Giverny in summer 1905, to visit the home of artist Claude Monet. The painter wore “a suit made of some tweedy material in a beige check, ...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir actually called this particular artwork the Japanese painting. It is thought to have been inspired by the Japanese print called Turban-shell Hall of the Five-Hundred Rakan Temple ...