La Danse (Bouguereau)

1856 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

La Danse

English: The Dance

La Danse (1856)

Artist| William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Year| 1856 (1856)
Medium| Oil on canvas
Dimensions| 367 cm × 180 cm (144 in × 71 in)
Location| Musée d'Orsay, Paris

La Danse (English: The Dance) is an oil-on-canvas painting created by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1856. The painting is currently held in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.[1]

The work, commissioned in 1855 by Anatole Bartholoni to decorate a living room at his Paris hotel, represents dance in an allegorical manner. Other canvases in the set are held at the United States Embassy in Paris.[2]

The canvas was donated by Captain Peter Moore to the National Museums for the Musée d'Orsay in 1981. It was then attributed to the Musée du Louvre, which finally assigned it to the Musée d'Orsay the same year.[3]

## See also

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* William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery

## References

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1. ^ Wissman, Fronia E. (1996). Bouguereau. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks. p. 21\. ISBN 978-0876545829.
2. ^ "La Danse". Musee d'Orsay. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
3. ^ Chenu. (1849). Notice sur le Musee Conchyliologique de M. le Baron Benjamin Delessert. Paris: [s.n.] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10582.

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* William-Adolphe Bouguereau at the Web Museum

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* Equality Before Death (1848)
* Dante and Virgil (1850)
* Shepherds Find Zenobia on the Banks of the Araxes (1850)
* The Dance (1856)
* Alone in the World (1867)
* The Elder Sister (1869)
* The Knitting Girl (1869)
* Maternal Admiration (1869)
* Breton Brother and Sister (1871)
* Nymphs and Satyr (1873)
* Flora and Zephyr (1875)
* Pietà (1876)
* Rest (1879)
* The Birth of Venus (1879)
* Dawn (1881)
* The Song of the Angels (1881)
* Evening Mood (1882)
* The Nut Gatherers (1882)
* The Young Shepherdess (1885)
* The Return of Spring (1886)
* The First Mourning (1888)
* Whisperings of Love (1889)
* The Shepherdess (1889)
* The Bohemian (1890)
* Cupid and Psyche as Children (1890)
* Gabrielle Cot (1890)
* A Little Coaxing (1890)
* The Goose Girl (1891)
* Work Interrupted (1891)
* The Virgin of the Lilies (1899)
* Queen of the Angels (1900)
* A Dream of Spring (1901)
* The Oreads (1902)

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* Cecilia Beaux
* Eanger Irving Couse
* Elizabeth Bouguereau
* Ellen Day Hale
* Anna Klumpke
* Edward Redfield
* Henry Ossawa Tanner
* Paul Chabas
* Thomas Anshutz
* Émile Munier

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* 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
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* Morisot: The Cradle
* Motte: The Fiancée of Belus
* Ottmann: The Luxembourg Station in Brussels
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* 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
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