Painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir “The Lodge” is one of his most famous works. The theatrical box depicted on it, marked by only a few elements, is rather a decoration, a frame for the main action.In its genre, this work is a portrait, and a double one. In the foreground, the artist depicted a woman with a small binoculars in one hand and a graceful handkerchief in the other. Behind her is a man who imposingly sits in an armchair and attentively watches what is happening on stage using theatrical binoculars. Interestingly, despite the fact that the artist placed these two figures next to each