A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant, 1875 - Large Art Prints Frame:Rolled The olive and laurel refer

The olive and laurel refer to the mystery of the Incarnation

All this means these are the sort of big

He picked his subjects from everyday life showing the figures in ordinary activities

but to Rockwell whose forte was portraiture

In this oft-reproduced work

A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant, 1875 - Large Art Prints Frame:Rolled The olive and laurel referRenoir portrays a waitress who worked at one of several Parisian restaurants established by a butcher named Duval. Renoir imparted to his comely model an unaffected grace. As he once said, "I like painting best when it looks eternal without boasting about it: an everyday eternity, revealed on the street corner: a servant girl pausing a moment as she scours a saucepan, and becoming a Juno on Olympus."