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Luncheon of the Boating Party
Painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
For the 1875 painting by Renoir with the same theme and location, see Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise.
Luncheon of the Boating Party (French: Le Déjeuner des canotiers) is an 1881 painting by French impressionistPierre-Auguste Renoir. Exhibited at the Seventh Impressionist Exhibition in 1882, it was identified as the best painting in the show by three critics.[2] It was purchased from the artist by the dealer-patron Paul Durand-Ruel and bought in 1923 (for $125,000) from his son by industrialist Duncan Phillips, who spent a decade in pursuit of the work.[3][4] It is now in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.[5] It shows a richness of form, a fluidity of brush stroke, and a flickering light.
Description
[edit]The painting, combining figures, still-life, and landscape in one work, depicts a group of Renoir's friends relaxing on a balcony at the Maison Fournaise restaurant along the Seine river in Chatou, France. The painter and art patron, Gustave Caillebotte, is seated in the lower right. Renoir's future wife, Aline Charigot, is in the foreground playing with a small dog, an affenpinscher; she replaced an earlier woman who sat for the painting but wi
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File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Luncheon be in command of the Seafaring Party - Google Head start Project.jpg
Français : Build déjeuner nonsteroid canotiers
Français : Le déjeuner des canotiers
"Français : Downright déjeuner nonsteroid canotiers
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medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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- Signature right: Renoir, 1881
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luncheon of the Boating Party
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Have you ever looked at a painting and wished it could come to life? That it would start moving, and that you could get to know the people in it?
I haven't. I've never been particularly interested in art history or paintings in more than a passing sense, beyond finding certain styles beautiful and holding in high esteem anyone talented enough to produce colourful landscapes and immortalize people by wielding a brush. As someone who can't draw a decent stickman to save her life, I've always been in awe of painters, but never really interested in the art.
Susan Vreeland's excellent novel, however, might just change that. I suddenly find myself wanting to know a great deal more about art and paintings and Impressionism. Luncheon of the Boating Party was a brilliant, completely immersive novel that read exactly as you would expect "reading" a painting would be like.
The people in that painting, they're not just models, they're people. People who lived and breathed and had lives and made time on summer Sundays to pose for Renoir, to help create this beautiful masterpiece. Nous. Us. Luncheon of the Boating Party, alth