Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise explained

Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise, also known as The Rowers' Lunch, Déjeuner chez Fournaise, or Déjeuner au Restaurant Fournaise, is a 1875 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It portrays three people having lunch at the Maison Fournaise located on the Île des Impressionnistes in the River Seine at Chatou, west of Paris. A rower and a coxed four are portrayed outside the restaurant, boating on the river.[1]

The painting is exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Renoir also painted the Maison Fournaise in his 1881 Luncheon of the Boating Party.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch) The Art Institute of Chicago. archive.artic.edu. 1875 . en. 2021-08-14.