Dance in the Country

1883

Auguste Renoir

Associated Names
Auguste Renoir

Artist, French, 1841 - 1919

The artwork shows a couple dancing closely together, with most of their bodies visible. The man is standing with his back to the viewer, wearing a dark suit and holding the woman in an embrace. The woman is facing the viewer, her head tilted slightly back, with an expression on her face. Her hair is styled up, adorned with a ribbon. She is dressed in a patterned, full-length dress. The setting includes foliage and a railing in the background. A table with a teacup and saucer is visible, and a hat lies on the ground nearby.

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939], Paris); (Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York); purchased 4 January 1965 by Norton Simon, Pasadena; purchased 14 March 1973 by (E.V. Thaw & Co., New York); purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1948

  • Drawings: Brueghel to Cezanne. Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York, March, 1948.

1965

  • Special exhibition for College Arts Association. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 18-April 16, 1965.

2011

  • Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.

2017

  • Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party, The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2017-2018.

2025

  • Renoir Drawing, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, and Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2025-2026, no. 66, repro.

Bibliography

1948

  • Schaeffer Galleries Bulletin no. 4 (March 1948), unnumbered and unpaginated.

1971

  • Daulte, François. August Renoir. Milan, 1971: no. 2 (repr.).

2010

  • Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.

2025

  • Bailey, Colin B., Distel, Anne, Lees, Sarah, and Perrin, Paul, editors. Renoir Drawings. Exh. cat. Morgan Library & Museum, New York; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2025-2026:80-83, 88, no. 66.

Inscriptions

recto: lower left in graphite: R.; verso: by later hand, lower center in blue pencil: 3915 [in box]

Wikidata ID

Q64536954

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