Ballo al moulin rouge renoir biography

Painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

For Ramon Casas painting, see Bal du Moulin de la Galette (Casas).

Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Dance at Moulin de la Galette, 1876 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir ...

It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces.^[1] The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at the original Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In the late 19th century, working-class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening.^{[2]: 121–3} Like other works of Renoir's early maturity, Bal du moulin de la Galette is a typically Impressionist snapshot of real life.

It shows a richness of form, a fluidity of brush stroke, and a flickering, sun-dappled light.

From 1879-94 the painting was in the collection of the French pa The Mixing of Classes in Renoir’s Bal au Moulin de la Galette RYQ