Details
Title: Dance in the city (Danse À La Ville)
Artist: Pierre Auguste Renoir
Published: 1883
Style of art: Impressionism
Location: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
Dimension: 179.7 x 89.1 cm
Oil on canvas
A very fashionable Parisienne woman, waltzing with her dance partner, dressed in the latest neoclassically draped evening style of young women, in a winter ball.
Pierre Auguste Renoir is one of the brightest representatives of Impressionism style of art.
Dance in the city was painted by order from one of Renoir’s customer, Paul Durand-Ruel which he ordered three paintings that depicted a dancing couple.
The dancers were completely transformed in each of these places. All the canvas depicts a couple dancing a slow dance which shows an intimate and loving moment.
The artist took such a proposal with great interest as he was already well acquainted with this topic. However, this time, Renoir decided to create slightly different from his usual paintings, all of them dancing looked completely different, but it was the same pair.
In this painting, an elegant couple dances near the marble columns, and the look of a man and a woman is exceptionally elegant as the couple dressed in a classic that shows luxurious.
The man carefully hugs his lady, but his whole pose is full of gallantry and attention. The coquette is extraordinarily beautiful – a gentle blush on round cheeks, an upturned nose, beautiful eyes. Graceful hands emphasize the beauty of the movements.
To top it all, this painting it describes a silent melody and a beautiful, young couple enjoying their night out without any interruptions of other, as if there is no one just them.