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Look through the trellis toward the boats, then compare the cool blue and warm yellow touches around the white tablecloth.
Renoir painted these three diners at the Maison Fournaise in Chatou in 1875. The restaurant served people boating on the Seine, and he showed this canvas at the Impressionist exhibition the following year. It depicts the same establishment as his later Luncheon of the Boating Party, but a smaller, different gathering.
Oil on canvas · 55 × 65.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch)
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date
- 1875
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55 × 65.9 cm (21 5/8 × 25 15/16 in.); Framed: 80.4 × 91.2 × 11.2 cm (31 5/8 × 35 7/8 × 4 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.