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RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste, 1841-1919
La danse à la campagne, 2e planche, 1890
Soft-ground etching.
Signature stamp lower right.
Only state.
Delteil 2; Stella 2. #909395
12 3/4 x 9 3/4”
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La danse à la campagne, 2e planche
A Dance in the Country
Bougival, the place depicted in this work, was a place of resort on the
Seine, a few miles outside of Paris, where young people gathered on
Sundays for dancing, boating and country amusements. Not far away,
on a small island in the Seine opposite Croissy, between Bougival and
Chatou, was the bathing spot known as La Grenouillere where Monet
and Renoir had painted side by side in 1869. It was at Croissy, in the
riverside restaurant of Mere Fournaise, that Renoir painted his Luncheon
of the Boating Party in 1880.
A pencil drawing titled, Dancing at Bougival, served as the model for
this work. Renoir also painted his famous painting Dancing at Bougival
in 1883, which is of the same subject manner. Both of these works now
hang in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.