Dance in the Country

Painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Dance in the Country

Artist| Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Year| 1883
Medium| Oil on canvas
Dimensions| 180 cm × 90 cm (71 in × 35 in)
Location| Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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.[1]

## Background

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This painting was commissioned in 1882 by the merchant Paul Durand-Ruel who wanted works on the theme of the ball. He bought it in 1886, exhibited it for the first time in April 1883, and kept it until Renoir's death in 1919. Two complementary painting on the same theme, named Dance in the City and Dance at Bougival, were also painted by Renoir the same year.[1][2]

The painting, influenced by the artist's trip in Italy in 1881 where he found inspiration from Raphael, marked an evolution of the painter who tried then to break away from Impressionism.[2]

## Description

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The painting depicts a couple dancing under a chestnut tree: the man is Paul Lhôte, a friend of the painter, and the woman is Aline Charigot, who later became the wife of the painter. Both figures are painted life-size and occupy almost the entire painting. However, a table in the background on the right, and a hat on the ground, and a pair of faces below the level of the dance floor, can be seen. The woman who holds a fan in her right hand, displays a smiling face and looks towards the viewer. The scene is bathed in a bright and cheerful atmosphere, and the women's clothes use warm colors (yellow gloves, red hat).[3]

## Companion pieces

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The paintings two companion pieces, Dance in the City and Dance at Bougival, also show a couple dancing.[4]

* Dance in the City, 1883

* Dance at Bougival, 1883

* Renoir Original 1884 - La Danse

## See also

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* List of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

## References

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1. ^ a b "Pierre Auguste Renoir, Danse à la campagne" (in French). Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
2. ^ a b Gartner, Peter J (2010). Musée d'Orsay, art et architecture (in French). China: Ullmann. pp. 244, 245. ISBN 978-3-8331-5443-0.
3. ^ Renoir - Les classiques de l'art (in French). Paris: Flammarion. 2005. p. 130\. ISBN 2-08-011445-X.
4. ^ "Dance in the City by Pierre Auguste Renoir". Painting-Planet. Retrieved 15 January 2020.

## External links

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* Impressionism: a centenary exhibition, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this painting (p. 195-200)

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Paintings|

* List of paintings
* Portrait of William Sisley (1864)
* Mother Anthony's Tavern (1866)
* Diana (1867)
* Lise with a Parasol (1867)
* Frédéric Bazille at his Easel (1867)
* A Couple (Les Fiancés) (1868)
* In Summer (1868)
* Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne (1868)
* Léonard Renoir, The Artist's Father (1869)
* La Grenouillère (1869)
* A Nymph by a Stream (1869-70)
* L'Algérienne (1870)
* La Promenade (1870)
* Bather with a Griffon Dog (1870)
* Woman with Parakeet (1871)
* The Harem (1872)
* Le Pont-Neuf (1872)
* The Gust of Wind (1872)
* Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil (1873)
* La Parisienne (1874)
* La Loge (1874)
* The Grand Boulevards (1875)
* Portrait of the Painter Claude Monet (1875)
* In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette (1875)
* Woman with a Cat (1875)
* Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)
* Nude woman sitting on a couch (Anna) (1876)
* The Swing (1876)
* A Girl with a Watering Can (1876)
* Mother and Children (1876)
* At the Theatre (1876–1877)
* Eugène Murer (1877)
* The Day Dream (1877)
* The Cup of Chocolate (1878)
* Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children (1878)
* Portrait of Jeanne Samary (1878)
* Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (1879)
* Paysage Bords de Seine (1879)
* Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers (La Petite Irène) (1880)
* Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881)
* Pink and Blue (1881)
* Two Sisters (On the Terrace) (1881)
* Young Women in Black (1880–1882)
* Blonde Bather (1881 and 1882)
* The Umbrellas (1880–81, 1885–86)
* By the Seashore (1883)
* Dance at Bougival (1883)
* Dance in the City (1883)
* Dance in the Country (1883)
* Les Grandes Baigneuses (1884–1887)
* Nature morte: fleurs (1885)
* The Braid (1886–1887)
* Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon (1888)
* Girls at the Piano (1892)
* Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano (1897)
* Woman Playing a Guitar (1897)
* Gabrielle with Open Blouse (1907)
* Nude (1910)
* After the Bath (1910)
* The Coast at Cagnes, Sea, Mountains (c. 1910)
* Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf (1911)
* The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes (c. 1908–1914)
* Blond Girl with a Rose (1915–1917)
* Portrait of Adèle Besson (1918)
* The Bathers (1918–19)

Sculptures|

* Venus Victorious (c. 1914)

Portrayals|

* A Studio at Les Batignolles (1870 painting)
* Bazille's Studio (1870 painting)
* The Impressionists (2006 series)
* Renoir (2012 film)

Family|

* Aline Charigot (wife)
* Lucienne Bisson (daughter)
* Pierre Renoir (son)
* Jean Renoir (son)
* Claude Renoir (son)
* Claude Renoir (grandson)
* Alain Renoir (grandson)
* Paul Renoir (grandson)
* Pierre Roland Renoir (great-grandson)
* Sophie Renoir (great-granddaughter)
* Jean-Emmanuel Renoir (great-grandson)

Related|

* Musée de Montmartre, home and studio
* Renoir, My Father
* Gabrielle Renard (nanny, later model)
* Lise Tréhot
* Marguerite Legrand
* Catherine Hessling
* Richard Guino
* Jeanne Samary
* Suzanne Valadon
* Henriette Henriot
* Jane Henriot (child model)
* Raoul Rigault
* Jeanne Baudot (his only student)
* Maison Fournaise
* Pays des Impressionnistes
* Renoir (crater)

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* Baader: Remorse
* Bartholomé: In the Conservatory
* Bastien-Lepage: Haymaking
* Bazille: The Family Reunion – The Improvised Field Hospital – The Pink Dress – Bazille's Studio
* Belly: Pilgrims going to Mecca
* Bonnard: Woman with a Cat
* Bonheur: Ploughing in the Nivernais
* Bouguereau: The Birth of Venus – La Danse – Dante and Virgil – Equality Before Death – Les Oréades
* Boulanger: Répétition du "Joueur de flûte" et de "La femme de Diomède" chez le prince Napoléon
* Bracquemond: The Lady in White – Three Women with Parasols
* Cabanel: The Birth of Venus
* Caillebotte: Les raboteurs de parquet – Partie de bateau – Vue de toits (Effet de neige)
* Cézanne: The Hanged Man's House – The Card Players – Portrait of Gustave Geffroy
* Chassériau: Arab Chiefs Challenging each other to Single Combat under the Ramparts of a City
* de Chavannes: The Poor Fisherman – The Turtle Seller
* Courbet: A Burial at Ornans – L'Origine du monde – The Painter's Studio – Le ruisseau noir – The Wounded Man
* Couture: The Romans in their Decadence
* Daubigny: The Harvest
* Daumier: The Laundress – The Republic
* Degas: L'Absinthe – The Bellelli Family – Café-Concert at Les Ambassadeurs (1885) – Les Choristes – The Orchestra at the Opera – Portraits at the Stock Exchange – The Tub
* Dehodencq: Boabdil's Farewell to Granada
* Delacroix: Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable
* Denis: Homage to Cézanne
* Detaille: The Dream
* Doré: The Enigma
* Fantin-Latour: Around the Piano – The Corner of the Table – Homage to Delacroix – A Studio at Les Batignolles
* Gauguin: Arearea – The Beautiful Angel – Breton Peasant Women – The Schuffenecker Family – Self-Portrait in a Hat – Self-Portrait with the Yellow Christ – Tahitian Women on the Beach – Vairumati
* Gérôme: The Cock Fight – Jerusalem – Reception of the Grand Condé at Versailles
* Gervex: A Session of the Painting Jury
* Glaize: The Gallic Women: Episode from the Roman Invasion
* Ingres: The Source
* Laurens: The Excommunication of Robert the Pious
* Lefebvre: The Truth
* Luce: The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame
* Manet: The Balcony – Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets – Blonde Woman with Bare Breasts – Bullfight – Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe – Flowers in a Crystal Vase – The Fifer – Madame Manet at the Piano – Olympia – The Port of Boulogne by Moonlight – Portrait of Clemenceau – Portrait of Emile Zola – Portrait of Marguerite de Conflans [1] – Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Manet – Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé – The Reading – A Sprig of Asparagus – The Waitress
* Matisse: Luxe, Calme et Volupté
* Meissonier: French Campaign, 1814 – The Siege of Paris
* Millet: The Angelus – The Gleaners – Shepherdess with her Flock – The Winnower
* Monet: The Artist's Garden at Giverny – A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur – Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe – The Magpie – Regatta at Argenteuil – Resting Under a Lilac Bush – The Road in Front of Saint-Simeon Farm in Winter – Women in the Garden
* Moreau: The Apparition
* Morisot: The Cradle
* Motte: The Fiancée of Belus
* Ottmann: The Luxembourg Station in Brussels
* Regnault: Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada
* Renoir: Bal du moulin de la Galette – The Bathers – Dance in the City – Dance in the Country – Frédéric Bazille at his Easel – Girls at the Piano – Portrait of the Painter Claude Monet – Portrait of William Sisley – The Swing
* Rousseau: The Snake Charmer
* Sérusier: The Talisman
* Seurat: The Circus
* Sisley: Avenue of Poplars near Moret-sur-Loing – The Canal du Loing – The Canal Saint-Martin – Chemin de la Machine, Louveciennes – The Forge at Marly-le-Roi – Regatta at Molesey near Hampton Court – Resting by a Stream at the Edge of the Wood – Rue de la Chaussée in Argenteuil – View of the Canal Saint-Martin – The Village of Voisins
* Toulouse-Lautrec: Le Lit – La Toilette

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* Harrison: Solitude
* Tanner: The Resurrection of Lazarus
* Whistler: Whistler's Mother

Belgian|

* van Rysselberghe: Sailboats and Estuary
* Stevens: The Bath – What is Called Vagrancy

British|

* Burne-Jones: The Wheel of Fortune

Dutch|

* Van Gogh: L'Arlésienne – Bedroom in Arles (3rd version) – The Church at Auvers – Starry Night Over the Rhône – Portrait of Dr. Gachet (2nd version) – Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers – Imperial Fritillaries in a Copper Vase – Self-portrait

Finnish|

* Edelfelt: Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt

Italian|

* Boldini: Madame Charles Max – Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou

Spanish|

* Sorolla: The Return from Fishing: Hauling the Boat

Sculptures

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* Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science
* Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent
* Claudel: The Mature Age
* Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily
* Jacquemart: Rhinocéros
* Gauguin: Objet décoratif carré avec dieux tahitiens – Oviri

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* [1] On display at the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse

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