Abstract
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting Le déjeuner des canotiers depicts a shared meal in an open-air restaurant on the banks of the Seine. Painted in 1880–81, Renoir's large toile provides a static, spatial representation of commensality. In his short story Boule de Suif, Guy de Maupassant describes a shared meal in a carriage. Published in 1881, the fictional representation privileges a temporal, sequential medium. Thinking comparatively about the visual representation and the fictional one allows us to better appreciate each one, by heightening our awareness of each medium used by the painter and the writer to create meaning.
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