Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Luncheon (Le Déjeuner)
| Year of creation: | 1875 |
| Original size: | 49.2 cm x 60.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
Luncheon (Le Déjeuner) is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1875. The original measures 49.2 x 60.0 cm, is catalogued as BF45 and hangs in The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. Our art reproduction Luncheon is painted by hand in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 70 x 60 to 150 x 120 cm.
A man and a woman sit at a small table laid with a white cloth, seen close to. At the left the woman is turned away from us in a pale cream jacket, her dark hair pinned up, reaching towards a glass of red wine; a blue garment is thrown over the chair behind her. At the right a bearded man in a dark blue coat leans in. Between them stand a glass, a knife, a blue-and-white tureen with its lid, a long loaf on a board and a dark green bottle.
The wall behind is panelled in warm ochre below and papered pale blue with a scrolling frieze above. A straw boater hangs on the chair at the lower edge – a small detail that says the couple are not in town but on an outing by the river, the same world Renoir would paint on a larger scale in the Luncheon of the Boating Party. The scene is quiet: nobody is speaking, and the meal is ending.
Our version is not a print. The white cloth is built from many thin layers of blue, grey and rose set wet into wet, while the loaf and the tureen are given with dense, short strokes. A hand-painted painting keeps that difference in the way the paint sits, which printed paper cannot imitate.
The warm blue-and-ochre subject is a natural fit for a dining room or a kitchen, and it also works in a living room. For a smaller wall 80 x 65 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 120 x 100 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 art reproduction Luncheon arrives ready to hang, with the canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
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