Rolleboise, baigneurs près du bras de la Seine

Rolleboise, baigneurs près du bras de la Seine (Rolleboise, Bathers near a Branch of the Seine), painted in 1930 and from the same late period as Luce's other Rolleboise river subjects, depicts swimmers in a smaller arm of the Seine near his home. The bras de la Seine — a secondary channel separated from the main river by an island — would have formed a more sheltered, intimate bathing area than the main current, popular with local children and families. Luce had by 1930 produced numerous bathing subjects at Rolleboise, and this painting participates in the late flowering of his river leisure series. It also continues the long tradition of bather subjects in French painting, from Cézanne's Grandes Baigneuses to the Impressionists' Seine leisure scenes, though Luce's version is characteristically grounded in specific local geography and ordinary social practice rather than classical or idealized precedents.

Multiple figures in and around the water are arranged in informal groupings that suggest observed rather than composed activity. Luce handles the spatial complexity of a bathing scene — figures at different distances, partly submerged, in motion — with confident late-style economy.