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The Maison Fournaise (French: [mɛzɔ̃ fuʁnɛz]; "House of Fournaise") is a restaurant and museum located on the Île des Impressionnistes, a long island in Seine river in Chatou, west of Paris. [ 1 ]
Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise, also known as The Rowers' Lunch, Déjeuner chez Fournaise, or Déjeuner au Restaurant Fournaise, is a 1875-1879 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It portrays three people having lunch at the Maison Fournaise located on the Île des Impressionnistes in the River Seine at Chatou , west of Paris .
The painting, combining figures, still-life, and landscape in one work, depicts a group of Renoir's friends relaxing on a balcony at the Maison Fournaise restaurant along the Seine river in Chatou, France. The painter and art patron, Gustave Caillebotte, is seated in the lower right.
The late 19th and early 20th century was a unique period. In the 1860s, the Maison Fournaise prospered there. Artists like Claude Monet and Guy de Maupassant often described the pleasures of the boating and the Maison Fournaise in its short stories. Réalier-Dumas decorated the north facade of the House (his restored fresco is still visible today).
Chatou is also the host of the Maison Fournaise, a meeting place for Impressionist painters in the past. It was a place where Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted numerous pieces (portraits of the Fournaise family, surrounding landscapes etc.), most notably the Déjeuner des canotiers (Luncheon of the Boating Party) in 1881.
Two Sisters or On the Terrace is an 1881 oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.The dimensions of the painting are 100.5 cm × 81 cm. [1] The title Two Sisters (French: Les Deux Sœurs) was given to the painting by Renoir, and the title On the Terrace (French: Sur la terrasse) by its first owner Paul Durand-Ruel.
Fournaise (fr. "furnace", "blaze" or "bonfire") may refer to: Piton de la Fournaise , a volcano on the island of Reunion Maison Fournaise , a restaurant and museum near Paris
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