Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Dance at Bougival
| Year of creation: | 1883 |
| Original size: | 181.9 cm x 98.1 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Dance at Bougival is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1883. The original measures 181.9 x 98.1 cm, is recorded under inventory number 37.375 and belongs to the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Our art reproduction Dance at Bougival is a hand-painted painting in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 50 x 90 to 100 x 190 cm.
The couple dance out of doors, among tables under the trees. The woman, in a white dress and a red bonnet, holds her face down and turned away from her partner; the man, in a straw hat and dark blue suit, leans towards her, the brim hiding almost all of his face. Behind them guests sit with their glasses, and on the ground at the dancers’ feet lie spent matches and a small bunch of flowers.
Our version is not a print. In this subject the difference is easy to see: the white dress and the red bonnet carry the whole canvas, and both are built from individual strokes of oil colour laid side by side with a brush. The paint keeps the thickness of the load and the track of the bristles, which printed paper cannot imitate, so an oil painting on canvas reads differently under changing light than a flat printed surface does.
The tall upright format, with its lively, warm scene, works well in a dining room, a restaurant, or beside a staircase, where the picture carries from a distance. For a smaller wall 60 x 110 cm is enough; for an open space we recommend 90 x 170 cm.
We paint to order, and in other sizes on request. Before despatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Every art reproduction Dance at Bougival arrives ready to hang, stretched on a wooden frame.
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