Renaissance costume, although the background landscape clearly resembled the Figure 35 Ferdinand Heilbuth. Seine valley with its islands. At a more frivolous level, the Directoire costume of Spring, circa 1869. Oil circa 1800 made a picture such as Etienne Berne-Bellecour's A Lovers' Nest on canvas, size and present whereabouts [FIGURE 36] acceptable. Tissot in these years was making a speciality of risque unknown. Sold Paris, Sedelmeyer sale, 1907. subjects in Directoire costume; both of his 1870 Salon exhibits, A Foursome Photograph, London, Witt Library, Courtauld (Partie carre] and Young Woman in a Boat, presented Directoire-costumed fig- Institute of Art. ures in Seine riverside settings.59 In order to focus more closely on the figures in La Promenade, the question of the picture's title is pertinent. As we have seen, it is not known what Renoir originally called his painting, although it is possible that La Promenade 53