Phillips Collection curator Eliza Rathbone says Renoir was "at the height of his powers" when in he painted Luncheon of the Boating Party. In 1880, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, age 41, wrote to a friend that he was in a riverside town near Paris painting oarsmen. He'd been "itching" ...
Bewitched park Misty city
Marie-Francois Firmin-Girard (1838-1921) Landscape with Woman by Stream (A quiet moment)
The cats of Alexander Gunin
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