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
Boating outboard, sterndrive, or inboard engines), daysailers ( sailboats, frequently with a small auxiliary engine), cruisers ( powerboats with cabins), and cruising and racing sailboats ( sailboats with auxiliary engines). The National Marine Manufacturers Association, the organization that establishes several of the standards that are commonly used in the marine industry in the United States, defines 32 types of boats, demonstrating the diversity of boat types and their specialization. In addition to those standards all boats employ the same basic principles of hydrodynamics. Boating activities are as varied as the boats and boaters who participate, and new ways of enjoying the