Auguste Renoir - Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise 1875

Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise 1875
Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise
1875 55x65cm oil/canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

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From Art Institute of Chicago:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted this canvas during the summer of 1875 in Chatou, west of Paris on the Seine River. The setting is the terrace of a restaurant on an island in the river, a popular meeting place for recreational rowers. Renoir was friendly with the proprietors of the restaurant, the Fournaise family. Only one of the party of three having lunch in this painting has been identified: the young man in a white jacket at left is Monsieur de Lauradour, a habitué of the restaurant and the nearby bathing resort of La Grenouillère.
— Permanent collection label