Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Dance in the Country
| Year of creation: | 1883 |
| Original size: | 180.0 cm x 90.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Musée d’Orsay, Paris |
Dance in the Country is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1883. The original measures 180.0 x 90.0 cm, is recorded under inventory number RF 1979 64 and belongs to the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Our oil painting on canvas Dance in the Country is painted by hand, in eight sizes from 50 x 100 to 100 x 200 cm.
The couple dance out of doors, on a terrace under trees. The woman, in a light flowered dress and a red bonnet, laughs and turns her face towards us with a fan raised in her right hand; her partner, in a dark suit and straw hat, is seen from behind. Behind them stands a table with a glass, and a discarded straw hat lies on the ground at the lower right. The canvas is the pendant to Dance in the City: same year, same size, opposite mood.
Our version is not a print. In this subject the difference is easy to see: the small flowered pattern of the dress and the shadows under the trees are made of 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 a hand-painted painting reads differently under changing light than a flat printed surface.
The narrow upright format and the warm, sunlit range work well in a dining room, a kitchen, or on the wall between two windows, where a wider picture will not fit. For a smaller wall 60 x 120 cm is enough; for a tall room we recommend 80 x 160 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 oil painting on canvas Dance in the Country arrives ready to hang, stretched on a wooden frame.
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