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Luncheon of the Boating Party

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Painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
For the 1875 painting by Renoir with the same theme and location, seeLunch at the Restaurant Fournaise.
Le Déjeuner des canotiers
ArtistPierre-Auguste Renoir
Year1881[1]
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions129.9 cm × 172.7 cm (51 in × 68 in)
LocationThe Phillips Collection,Washington, DC

Luncheon of the Boating Party (French:Le Déjeuner des canotiers) is an1881 painting by FrenchimpressionistPierre-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-patronPaul Durand-Ruel and bought in 1923 (for $125,000) from his son by industrialistDuncan Phillips, who spent a decade in pursuit of the work.[3][4] It is now inThe Phillips Collection inWashington, D.C.[5] It shows a richness of form, a fluidity of brush stroke, and a flickering light.

Description

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The painting, combining figures, still-life, and landscape in one work, depicts a group of Renoir's friends relaxing on a balcony at theMaison Fournaise restaurant along theSeine river inChatou, 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, anaffenpinscher; she replaced an earlier woman who sat for the painting but with whom Renoir became annoyed.[4] On the table is fruit and wine.

The diagonal of the railing serves to demarcate the two halves of the composition, one densely packed with figures, the other all but empty, save for the two figures of the proprietor's daughter Louise-Alphonsine Fournaise and her brother, Alphonse Fournaise, Jr, which are made prominent by this contrast. In this painting Renoir has captured a great deal of light. The main focus of light is coming from the large opening in the balcony, beside the large singleted man in the hat. Thesinglets of both men in the foreground and the table-cloth all work together to reflect this light and send it through the whole composition.

The painting is thought to show the influence of Italian Renaissance painterPaolo Veronese on Renoir's style, in particular,The Wedding Feast at Cana (1563), one of Renoir's favorite Veronese paintings at theLouvre, which depicts a similar banquet theme to that of theLuncheon.[6]

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Subjects depicted

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As he often did in his paintings, Renoir included several of his friends inLuncheon of the Boating Party.[4] Identification of the sitters was made in 1912 byJulius Meier-Graefe.[7] Among them are the following:[8]

  • The seamstressAline Charigot, who is holding anaffenpinscher dog, sits near the bottom left of the composition. Renoir married her in 1890, and they had three sons.
  • Charles Ephrussi—wealthy amateur art historian, collector, and editor of theGazette des Beaux-Arts—appears wearing a top hat in the background. The younger man to whom Ephrussi appears to be speaking, more casually attired in a brown coat and cap, may beJules Laforgue, his personal secretary and also a poet and critic.
  • ActressEllen Andrée drinks from a glass in the center of the composition. Seated across from her is Baron Raoul Barbier, former mayor of colonial Saigon.
  • Placed within but peripheral to the party are the proprietor's daughterLouise-Alphonsine Fournaise and her brother,Alphonse Fournaise, Jr., both sporting traditional straw boaters and appearing to the left side of the image. Alphonsine is the smiling woman leaning on the railing; Alphonse, who was responsible for the boat rental, is the leftmost figure.
  • Also wearing boaters are figures appearing to be Renoir's close friends Eugène Pierre Lestringez, a bureaucrat, and Paul Lhote, himself an artist. Renoir depicts them flirting with the actressJeanne Samary in the upper righthand corner of the painting.
  • In the right foreground,Gustave Caillebotte wears a white boater's shirt and flat-topped straw boater's hat as he sits backwards in his chair next to actress Angèle Legault and journalistAdrien Maggiolo [fr] . An art patron, painter, and important figure in the impressionist circle, Caillebotte was also an avid boatman and drew on that subject for several works.

Close-ups

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Luncheon of the Boating Party - Details of the Women
Luncheon of the Boating Party - Details of the Men

Actual location

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The actual location of the scene isMaison Fournaise.

The modern-dayMaison Fournaise restaurant along theRiver Seine inChatou, France.

Contemporary critical reception

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At the Seventh Impressionist Exhibition in 1882, the painting generally received praise from critics. "It is fresh and free without being too bawdy," wrote Paul de Charry inLe Pays, March 10, 1882. InLa Vie Moderne (March 11, 1882), Armand Silvestre wrote, "...one of the best things [Renoir] has painted...There are bits of drawing that are completely remarkable, drawing – true drawing – that is a result of the juxtaposition of hues and not of line. It is one of the most beautiful pieces that this insurrectionist art by Independent artists has produced." Alternatively,Le Figaro published Albert Wolff's comment on March 2, 1882: "If he had learned to draw, Renoir would have a very pretty picture..."[9]

In popular culture

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See also

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References

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  1. ^"Where's the Lunch? Looking at Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party".Smithsonian Magazine. November 10, 2011. RetrievedNovember 20, 2017.
  2. ^The New painting, Impressionism, 1874-1886 : an exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with the National Gallery of Art, Washington (2nd ed.). [San Francisco]: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 1986. p. 379.ISBN 0884010473.
  3. ^"WebMuseum: Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: Le déjeuner des canotiers".www.ibiblio.org.
  4. ^abcPanko, Ben (10 October 2017)."Exhibit Sheds New Light on Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party"". Smithsonian. Retrieved11 October 2017.
  5. ^Smee, Sebastian (November 24, 2020)."At 100, the Phillips Collection doesn't seem to have aged".The Washington Post. RetrievedNovember 24, 2020.
  6. ^Lucy, Martha. John House (2012).Renoir in the Barnes Foundation. Yale University Press. pp. 8–9.ISBN 9780300151008.OCLC 742017633.
  7. ^The New painting, Impressionism, 1874-1886 : an exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with the National Gallery of Art, Washington (2nd ed.). [San Francisco]: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 1986. p. 412.ISBN 0884010473.
  8. ^"Luncheon of the Boating Party". acesart.com. Archived fromthe original on 25 July 2008.
  9. ^The New painting, Impressionism, 1874-1886 : an exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with the National Gallery of Art, Washington (2nd ed.). [San Francisco]: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 1986. p. 413.ISBN 0884010473.
  10. ^Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:http://www.worldofepicmovies.net/edwardg.htm. Retrieved May 17, 2010
  11. ^[1]Archived June 16, 2006, at theWayback Machine

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