In the summer of 1869, the artists Claude MONET and Auguste RENOIR were inspired to use the Grenouillere and its outdoor bathing pools as the setting for five of their most famous paintings, paintings which would later become internationally famous and be recognised as the canvasses that launched the Impressionnist movement.

The Grenouillere was home to a large floating cafe-dancehall moored alongside the Ile de Croissy which attracted crowds from the center of Paris during the second half of the 19th century. The writer, Guy de MAUPASSANT described the dance hall and its boating crowd in several of its short stories.

 "La Grenouillère" - C.Monet
1869 - Metropolitan Museum of Art New-York