At the center of this painting is a lavoir, or wash-house boat, where France’s working classes could wash laundry. The vessel is positioned on a stretch of the River Seine in Meudon, a town famous as the site of one of Louis XIV’s palaces. Rather than emphasizing the town’s historic significance, Renoir focused on a scene from contemporary life and painted the water, trees, boats, and figures with uniformly thin brushstrokes, producing a quintessentially modern landscape.
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