Renoir - Luncheon of the Boating Party

Luncheon of the Boating Party was painted in 1880-1881.

Type of the painting - Oil on canvas.

Painting size - 129.5 × 172.7 cm.

Fourteen boaters lull after lunch on Renoir’s five-and-a-half by four foot canvas. The painting, framed, weighs around 150 pounds - a heavy lunch. Renoir used photographs of the friends he was painting to get their faces right, but the artist launched right into his luncheon with no preliminary sketches - just attacked the big linen canvas with brushwork that darts and dances like sunshine on water.

It is a part of the following sets: Party