Renoir's friends linger after lunch on the balcony of the Maison Fournaise, a restaurant on the Seine at Chatou, beneath a striped awning. Wine, fruit and glasses catch the light on the table while men in singlets and boaters talk and flirt. Renoir combined figures, still life and landscape in one canvas, and critics singled it out at the 1882 Impressionist exhibition.
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At lower left, the seamstress Aline Charigot, later Renoir's wife, plays with a small affenpinscher. Gustave Caillebotte sits astride a chair at lower right.
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