Dance in the country

Danse à la campagne
	Pierre-Auguste Renoir , 1883
	Oil on canvas
	180.3 × 90 cm
	Musée d'Orsay

Dance in the Country (Danse à la Campagne) is a painting by the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1883. It is 180.3 × 90 cm and hangs in the Musée d'Orsay .

The picture showing a dancing couple is one of three pictures with dancing couples of different social characteristics that the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel ordered from Renoir to decorate his dining room. The painter took his new girlfriend Aline Charigot, whom he later married, and his artist colleague Paul Lhôte as models for the scene in a traditional garden restaurant.

Individual evidence

^ Danse à la campagne , Musée d'Orsay
↑ Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Aline Charigot . In: Tatjana Kuschtewskaja : Secrets of beautiful women. Famous artists and their models . Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-89978-301-8 , pp. 82–91.
↑ See Peter H. Feist (Ed.): Impressionism. The invention of leisure. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1993, 2nd edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-161-8 , p. 51.

[1] Danse à la campagne , Musée d'Orsay

[2] Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Aline Charigot . In: Tatjana Kuschtewskaja : Secrets of beautiful women. Famous artists and their models . Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-89978-301-8 , pp. 82–91.

[3] See Peter H. Feist (Ed.): Impressionism. The invention of leisure. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1993, 2nd edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-161-8 , p. 51.