#dancing

Art the community tagged “dancing” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 2

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.