Luncheon of the Boating Party painting, combining figures, still-life, and landscape in one work, depicts a group of Renoir's friends relaxing on a balcony at the Maison Fournaise restaurant along the Seine river in Chatou, France. The painter and art patron, Gustave Caillebotte, is seated in the lower right. Renoir's future wife, Aline Charigot, is in the foreground playing with a small dog, an affenpinscher; she replaced an earlier woman who sat for the painting but with whom Renoir became annoyed. On the table is fruit and wine. The diagonal of the railing serves to demarcate the two halves of the composition, one densely packed
Stock Exchange Luncheon Club African American member of the NYSE when he joined in 1970, said that his "biggest fear...was where would I sit in the luncheon club?". The situation was resolved when Searles was given his own table by the club, and he dined alone for a while. A ladies' restroom was installed in the club as late as 1987, some twenty years after women were first admitted to the NYSE. In 1999, the club had more than 1,400 members, and was lavishly decorated with various animal heads, most shot by members on safari. In August 2001, the Stock Exchange Luncheon Club served