three things i love

(post)impressionist art, france and rowing ... why didn't i think of this before? forgive my terseness in this post. i'm unabashedly speechless at my inability to make this connection earlier (bonus points to those who can locate the rowers in the seurat)

claude monet, la grenouillere, oil on canvas, 1869

pierre auguste renoir, lunch at the restaurant fournaise (the rowers' lunch), oil on canvas, 1875

pierre auguste renoir, oarsmen at chatou, oil on canvas, 1879

georges seurat, a sunday on la grande jatte --- 1884, oil on canvas, 1884-86