Auguste Renoir - Monsieur Fornaise 1875

Monsieur Fornaise 1875
Monsieur Fornaise
1875 56x47cm oil/canvas
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute at Williamstown, MA, USA

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From Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute at Williamstown:
Alphonse Fournaise owned a restaurant and boat-rental business on an island in the river Seine near Paris. The proprietor may have commissioned this portrait to thank Renoir, a regular customer, for bringing in business. The painting records an informal moment: Fournaise smokes his pipe at a table on which two glasses of beer stand—one for the sitter and one, perhaps, for the painter.
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