Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – After the Luncheon
| Year of creation: | 1879 |
| Original size: | 100.5 cm x 81.3 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main |
After the Luncheon is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1879. The original measures 100.5 x 81.3 cm, is catalogued as SG 176 and hangs in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Our hand-painted painting After the Luncheon is worked in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 65 x 80 to 140 x 170 cm.
Three figures sit at the end of a meal under a green arbour. At the left a young woman in a pale blue-green jacket faces us, a white hat trimmed with violets on her fair hair, raising a small glass; a sprig of violets is pinned at her breast. Behind her a second woman stands in black, with a large dark hat and a wide white lace jabot, looking out at us. At the right a bearded man in dark clothes leans down to light a cigarette. On the white cloth stand a cut-glass carafe, a tumbler, two flowered cups and a red matchbox.
The museum’s own record names the sitters: Renoir’s brother Edmond, the actress Ellen Andrée and the model Marguerite Legrand, in the arbour of the Cabaret d’Olivier on Montmartre. The work has been in the museum since 1910. Readers who like this kind of table scene will know the larger terrace of the Luncheon of the Boating Party.
Our version is not a print. Faces and lace are built from fine, soft strokes, while the foliage of the arbour is a run of short separated touches that let the ground show through in places. A hand-painted canvas keeps that difference in the way the paint sits, which printed paper cannot imitate.
The green-and-white scene works well in a dining room or a living room, where the picture is allowed to draw the eye. For a smaller wall 80 x 100 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 110 x 130 cm. We paint to order, in a different size on request. Before dispatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Every hand-painted painting After the Luncheon arrives ready to hang, with the canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
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