Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-81) is the jewel of The Phillips Collection. This volume reveals the fascinating characters in the painting and explores Renoir's technique.

Eliza Rathbone is chief curator emerita at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

Mary Morton is curator and head of the Department of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Sylvie Patry is deputy director of Collections & Exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.

Aileen Ribeiro is Professor Emeritus of the University of London.

Elizabeth Steele is head of conservation at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

Sara Tas is a curator at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.

Eliza Rathbone is chief curator emerita at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. she was assistant curator, Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, 1979-1985 and associate curator, curator of Twentieth-Century Art, and chief curator, the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 1985-2014.

Mary Morton is curator and head of the French paintings department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She received her PhD from Brown University, concentrating on 19th and early 20th century European painting. Dr. Morton spent five years as associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Sylvie Patry is deputy director for Collections & Exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator, Barnes Foundation.

Aileen Ribeiro was Head of the History of Dress Department at the Courtauld Institute from 1975 to 2009; appointed Professor in the History of Art at the University of London in 2000, she is now Professor Emeritus. She lectures widely in Great Britain, Europe and North America, and has acted as costume consultant/contributor to many major exhibitions of art.

Elizabeth Steele is head of conservation at the Phillips Collection.

Sara Tas is a curator at the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam.