Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1880–81

Luncheon of the Boating Party

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Renoir's sun-dappled afternoon on the Seine — fourteen of his friends gathered on a restaurant terrace at Chatou, wine glasses and straw hats and conversation in the warm light. The most life-affirming Impressionist painting.

Up to 32.5 × 24 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

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Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

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Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of Luncheon of the Boating Party

Fourteen people are finishing lunch on a restaurant balcony over the Seine, under a striped awning, with the bottles and fruit still on the table. A woman in the front left corner holds up a small dog to kiss it; a man in a straw hat and undershirt leans on the rail; couples flirt, argue, and listen at the back. Renoir painted it in 1880 and 1881 at the Maison Fournaise in Chatou, using his friends as models, and the woman with the dog became his wife. It is at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and it is the painting people go there for.

On a wall, this is warmth and company. The dominant colors are the white of the tablecloth and the men's shirts, the orange-and-white awning, warm skin, straw yellow, and the green of the river and trees, with reds in the flowers and the women's hats. It suits a dining room above all, and also a kitchen, a living room, a sunroom, or a home bar, and it fits French-country, traditional, warm-modern, and entertaining-friendly interiors. It is a wide image with a crowd in it. The Large at 32.5 × 24 in is the size for a dining-room wall; the Medium at 21.7 × 16 in is right above a sideboard or a bar cart.

Renoir's Bal du moulin de la Galette is the same crowd dancing five years earlier, and Dance at Bougival is the same riverside the summer after. Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is the lunch that started all of this. More from Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Printed in our studio from a public-domain photograph of the Phillips canvas, with the warm tones held to the original.

About the artist

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. It has been said that, as a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Frequently asked

Luncheon of the Boating Party— questions & answers

›Who painted Luncheon of the Boating Party?

Luncheon of the Boating Party was painted by the French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1880–81.

›Where was Luncheon of the Boating Party painted?

Renoir painted it on the riverside terrace of the Maison Fournaise restaurant at Chatou, on the Seine just outside Paris. The original now hangs in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.

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