Luncheon of the Boating Party, c. 1880
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Oil on canvas · 130.2 x 175.6 cm
Friends linger over wine on a sun-striped riverside terrace.
Renoir gathers his friends on a sun-dappled riverside terrace — food, wine, flirtation and easy laughter. Every face is a real person he knew. Warm, sparkling and utterly alive, it is Impressionism's great celebration of friendship and summer.
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Every face is somebody. Renoir painted his friends at a riverside restaurant at Chatou — the woman playing with the small dog is Aline Charigot, who later married him, and the man straddling a chair backwards in a straw hat is Caillebotte. The still life of bottles and glasses at the front is painted with more attention than several of the people.
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About 1.39:1. The clean crop trims the awning above and the table below; the matted file keeps them. Warm, dappled and busy — it holds a bright room and rewards a big panel, since half the pleasure is in the faces.
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