''Dance in the City'' is a painting by French artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "R ...
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The 1883 work is in the collection of the
Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...
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The dancers are model and artist
Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon (23 September 18657 April 1938) was a French painter who was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des B ...
and Renoir's friend Paul Auguste Lhôte.
This work, along with companion pieces ''
Dance in the Country
''Dance in the Country'' (French: ''Danse à la campagne'') is an 1883 oil painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is currently kept at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Background
This painting was commissioned in 1882 by the merchant Pa ...
'' and ''
Dance at Bougival'', was produced to order for the art dealer
Paul Durand-Ruel
Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionists and the Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste ...
. All three were painted in 1883 featuring two people dancing in different environments (although the woman in ''Dance in the Country'' was modelled by
Aline Charigot
Aline Victorine Charigot (23 May 1859 – 27 June 1915) was a model for Auguste Renoir and later became his wife while continuing to model for him and then caring for him when he became disabled. She is pictured in many of his paintings over ver ...
, later Renoir's wife).
File:Pierre Auguste Renoir - Country Dance - Google Art Project.jpg,
File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Suzanne Valadon - Dance at Bougival - 02.jpg,
References
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1883 paintings
Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Paintings in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay
Dance in art
Suzanne Valadon