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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. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. [1]
Self-Portrait, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: 1876: 73.3 cm × 57.3 cm (28.9 in × 22.6 in) Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Bal du Moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette) 1876: 131 cm × 175 cm (52 in × 69 in) Musée d'Orsay, Paris Nude woman sitting on a couch (Anna) 1876: 92 cm × 73 cm (36 in × 29 in)
Auguste Renoir, Bal du moulin de la Galette 1876. The current name Moulin de la Galette is based upon galette, a small brown bread that the Debray millers, who owned the mill in the 19th century, made and sold with a glass of milk
A small version of Bal du moulin de la Galette sold for $78.1 million 17 May 1990 at Sotheby's New York. [32] In 2012, Renoir's Paysage Bords de Seine was offered for sale at auction but the painting was discovered to have been stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951. The sale was cancelled.
Renoir executed the painting in what are now the Musée de Montmartre gardens. He had rented a cottage in the gardens so that he could be closer to the Moulin de la Galette where he was simultaneously engaged in painting his 1876 Bal du moulin de la Galette. Both paintings were presented at the third Impressionist group exhibition in 1877.
In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette (1875) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette (Au jardin - Sous la tonnelle au moulin de la Galette) is an 1875 oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in his studio on Rue Cortot in Montmartre. [1]
Moulin de la Galette was also the name of an outdoor dance hall that was located between two of the last windmills on a Montmartre hilltop. In addition to van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre-Auguste Renoir also painted Moulin de la Galette. [4] Renoir's painting of the dance hall is titled Bal du moulin de la Galette.
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