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Dance at Bougival

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Year
  
1883

Artist
  
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Period
  
Impressionism

Support
  
Canvas

Type
  
Oil paint on canvas

Created
  
1883

Genre
  
History painting

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Dimensions
  
181.9 by 98.1 centimetres (71.6 in × 38.6 in)

Location
  
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Similar
  
Pierre-Auguste Renoir artwork, Impressionist artwork, History paintings

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Dance at Bougival (French: Danse à Bougival) is an 1883 work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. It has been described as "one of the museum's most beloved works".

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Subject

The work depicts two of Renoir's friends, Suzanne Valadon and Paul Auguste Llhote.

Style

The painting has been described as one of Renoir's first reversions to a more classical style of painting he learned copying paintings in the Louvre while maintaining the bright palette of his fellow Impressionists.

References

Dance at Bougival Wikipedia