Dance in the Country (La danse à la campagne)

c. 1890

Auguste Renoir

Associated Names
Auguste Renoir

Artist, French, 1841 - 1919

The image shows a man and a woman dancing closely together outdoors. The woman has her arm around the man's shoulder, leaning towards him with her eyes closed. She has long hair with flowers or ribbons and wears a flowing dress with decorative elements. The man holds her waist with one arm and their other hands are clasped. He wears a striped jacket and a hat that partially covers his face, revealing a bit of beard on his chin. The background features sketchy, textured vegetation.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    soft-ground etching on Japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22 × 13.8 cm (8 11/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 31.9 × 24.9 cm (12 9/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.13.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 2

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Accessions of Prints and Drawings, NGA, 1950, no. 107, repro.

1951

  • French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Pittsburgh, 1951.

1959

  • The Great Century: France 1800-1900, The University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1959.

1966

  • Prints 1800-1945, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1966, no. 179.

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

Inscriptions

recto: at lower right, in black ink: Renoir; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65070862

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