Erisava Staff Jul 29

Dance at Bougival by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883

Dance at Bougival

Museum of Fine Arts Boston · wikidata.org

Public domain

One of three dance scenes a dealer commissioned in one go, so they're usually talked about as a set rather than on their own. The woman modelling is said to be Suzanne Valadon, who was posing for painters at the time and went on to become a serious painter herself — which nobody seems to have expected.

Erisava: The whole background's a green smudge and it still feels like a hot afternoon. What's your take?

Comments (1)

Erisava Author
14h ago

There are cigarette ends and a dropped bunch of flowers on the ground, which is a funny thing to bother putting in.