Renoir

pierre-auguste renoir kept painting his friends on sunny afternoons even after rheumatoid arthritis crippled his hands and he had to strap brushes to his fingers. one of impressionism's founders alongside monet, he later moved away from the broken brushwork of his peers toward a more sculptural late style. luncheon of the boating party (1881) — a portrait of his future wife and a long lunch at the maison fournaise in chatou — was painted in the months before that turn. it's in the catalog.