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
Eton Boating Song 'With your bodies between your knees.' The song appears in the 1951 comedy film "The Lavender Hill Mob", sung by the schoolgirls during the school scene. The song features in the 1953 comedy film "The Titfield Thunderbolt" and the 1959 adventure film "North West Frontier". The "Eton Boating Song" features in the 1960s television series "The Prisoner", in the episodes "The Girl Who Was Death" and "Once Upon a Time". In the Thunderbirds episode "The Cham-Cham", Parker briefly sings part of the song as he prepares to go boating before being called out on a mission by Lady Penelope. It