The restaurant just outside Paris, where the painting was painted is now open again ( just 10 minutes by the RER suburban Metro) in the town of Chatou.
The Restaurant La Maison Fournaise on the Ile des Impressionistes is open for lunch and dinner and so if you are a romantic like me, have lunch there and relive those days of Renoir and his fellow artists.
Yes,the area around here is somewhat industrial (not the idyllic countryside that Renoir experienced over 100 years ago) ..but, with a little imagination..as Edith Piaf once sang..."Put On Your Rose Colored Glasses"...and enjoy yourself and yes, don't forget to wear your straw hat!
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