PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR: "Le déjeuner des canotiers (Luncheon of the boating party)", 1880-81 - oil on canvas, 129.5 × 172.7 cm - Washington, Phillips Collection

The light is the main protagonist of this famous painting, in wich Renoir has depicted a group of his friends relaxing on a balcony along the Seine river (among them, another famous Impressionist painter, Gustave Caillebotte, who can be seen in the lower right of the canvas).

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR: "Moulin de la Galette", 1876 - oil on canvas, 131-175 cm. - Paris, Musée d'Orsay

This masterwork has been described as “the most beautiful painting of the 19th century”. The painting depicts one of the numerous dances that took place in the Moulin de la Galette, one of the most frequented clubs in 19th century Montmartre, a paradise for bohemians and artists like Toulouse-Lautrec, van Gogh or Renoir himself. One of the supreme masterworks from early Impressionism.