Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir Wall Art | Impressionist Masterpiece Canvas Print

Painted in 1880–81 at the Maison Fournaise on the Seine at Chatou, Luncheon of the Boating Party gathers fourteen of Renoir's friends — painters, models, writers, and patrons — around a sun-flooded terrace strewn with wine bottles, fruit, and crystal. The composition unfolds in pearl white, rose, deep red, and sun-warmed straw tones, animated by the loose, ravishing brushwork at the apex of Renoir's high-Impressionist manner. Aline Charigot, the future Madame Renoir, plays with her little dog at the lower left; Gustave Caillebotte sits opposite in a straw boater — the painting is a portrait of a circle and a way of life. The work hangs today at the Phillips Collection in Washington and stands as a luminous testament to one of the supreme masterpieces of nineteenth-century French painting.