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
Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918) played an important role in the politics of Romania. In the early 20th century, the party underwent several schisms. In January 1908, Take Ionescu left to found the Conservative Democratic Party ("Partidul Conservator-Democrat", PCD). In May 1915, Nicolae Filipescu led a group out of the party that favored joining World War I on the "Entente" side; in October 1916, the Filipescu and Ionescu groups fused as the Conservative Nationalist Party ("Partidul Conservator Naţionalist"). In 1918–19 the party split into the "Partidul Conservator-Democrat" (which, in 1922, fused with the National Party) and the short-lived "Partidul Conservator-Progresist". Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918) The