I have been trying to write all day, but unfortunately, being sick and writing interesting posts don’t go together too well. However, being well aware that I haven’t posted for several days, I didn’t want to leave my wonderful readers without any new content for too long, so I thought I could at least share these beautiful Renoir paintings. Hope everyone is having a great beginning of the new year (or at the very least a healthier one than I am).
Dance at the Moulin de la Galette by Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1876. Musee d’Orsay, Paris. Photo via the-athenaeum.org.Dance at Bougival by Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1883. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photo via the-athenaeum.org.City Dance by Pierre Auguste Renoir. Musee d’Orsay, Paris. Photo via the-athenaeum.orgCountry Dance by Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1883. Musee d’Orsay, Paris. Photo via the-athenaeum.org
Exciting bonus! Renoir painted skaters as well! Art, skating, and dance – all my favorite things in one post. It’s so interesting how Renoir’s style changed so dramatically in the eight years between the skaters and the Moulin de la Galette, as opposed to how little it changed in the next seven years between Moulin de la Galette and the three dancing couples.
Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne by Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1868. Private collection. Photo via the-athenaeum.org.
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Alexandra Kiely, aka A Scholarly Skater, is an art historian based in the northeastern United States. She loves wandering down the dark and dusty corners of art history and wholeheartedly believes in visual art's ability to enrich every person's life.
Her favorite periods of art history are 19th-century American painting and medieval European art and architecture. When she not looking at, reading about, writing about, or teaching art, she's probably ice dancing or reading.
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