Title

Wash-House Boat At Bas-Meudon, c1874. Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Caption

Wash-House Boat At Bas-Meudon, c1874. 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.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A24_004

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

74,4Mb (4,3Mb) / 18,9in x 15,3in / 5674 x 4586 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation river scenic building people boat boats arts painting country French France art view museum geography color floating Seine River Seine scenery location century rowing boat suburban vista concept suburb riverbank impressionist rowboat art museum oil Painting Colour 19th century water transport Museum of Art background people Elevated View Ile-de-France impressionism 1800s nineteenth century geographical feature Hauts-de-Seine Oil on canvas TGN building exterior landscape oil 1874 arial view Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre Auguste Renoir Auguste Renoir Renoir Pierre-Auguste Oil on canvas Washhouse wash-house Clark Art Institute Renoir Auguste Heritage Art 19th-century Bas-Meudon