portrait of monet auguste renoirThis portrait shows Claude Monet at the age of thirty five, then at the heart of his most radically Impressionist period. Auguste Renoir and Monet had maintained a deep friendship since their first meeting at the Gleyre studio in 1862, and had painted side by side many open air scenes, notably at La Grenouillre and Argenteuil. This portrait bears witness to that fraternal closeness between the two founders of the movement, at a crucial moment when