Bougival is a congregation of the canton of Marly, Versailles District, department of the Seine and the Oise, in France, located on the left bank of the Seine, with 3 thousand inhabitants. Bougival is the station of the train. roads and often visited by Parisians who come here for swimming and boating. The old church with a bell tower of the 12th century, in the Romanesque style, is remarkable; many beautiful villas.
Each Frenchman has his own sentimental places, where he especially likes to spend his free time, weekend. One of these places is traditionally Bougival. You can safely get there by rail, take a walk by the river, admire the local beauty and sights, just get some fresh air. In a word, to gain strength before the inevitable working days. Claude Monet was French, as they say, to the bone. Though the writer Vladimir Nabokov once expressed himself in the spirit that “the nationality of the writer is a secondary matter.
The art of the writer is his real passport “, but it is not fully possible to agree with this statement. Especially when the works themselves continually return us to the concrete realities of a particular country or place. Without information about them, our knowledge of the artist will certainly be depleted, incomplete.
Painting “Seine near Bougival” is quite typical for the style of Monet. The proximity of water, the fluidity of forms, quivering air, floating through the sky, like thoughts, clouds. A governess is walking along one side of the bridge with a small child; on the other, two men are talking about something. A few more human figures blacken in the distance. On both sides of the bridge – green spaces. The day is sultry, the sun breaks through the green leaves and its glare falls directly on the pavement. The river rolls its waters, sparkling and shimmering under the sun’s rays. Sunday idyll, and only!
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