Paysage Bords de Seine Paysage Bords de Seine Paysage Bords de Seine ("On the Shore of the Seine" or "Landscape on the Banks of the Seine") is an 1879 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It was stolen in 1951 from the Baltimore Museum of Art and resurfaced in 2012. "Paysage Bords de Seine" was painted by Renoir in 1879. In June 1925, the painting was purchased by the Paris art gallery Bernheim-Jeune from a "Madame Papillon" (possibly Alphonsine Fournaise Papillon, a figure in the artist's "Luncheon of the Boating Party"). In January 1926, Herbert L. May purchased the painting from Bernheim-Jeune. In 1937, May's
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