Picnic on the River (1914)
Gaston Balande’s <em>Lunch on the Banks of the Seine </em> and <em>Camping</em> (1930s)
Balande’s painting Déjeuner au bord de la Seine or Picnic by a River epitomizes Parisians at play along the Seine just at the start of World War I.
Camping was Balande’s entry to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
See Gaston Balande’s Camping (1934). The Fleming Collection [Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation], London Dejeuner en Plein Air. aka Déjeuner au bord de la Seine. Musée du Petit Palais, Genève