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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Bal du moulin de la Galette  wikidata:Q88798922 reasonator:Q88798922
Artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir  (1841–1919)  wikidata:Q39931 s:en:Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir q:en:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Alternative names
Auguste Renoir
Description French painter, sculptor, illustrator, printmaker, drawer and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 25 February 1841 Edit this at Wikidata / 17 December 1919 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Limoges Edit this at Wikidata Cagnes-sur-Mer
Work period 1854 Edit this at Wikidata–1919 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris; Aix-en-Provence; Argenteuil; Cagnes-sur-Mer; Cannes; Marseille; Amersfoort Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q39931
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Title
Dance at the Mouline de la Galette
label QS:Len,"Dance at the Mouline de la Galette"
label QS:Lfr,"Bal au Moulin de la Galette"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
  • There are two versions of this painting (as well as a largely monochrome study in Copenhagen). The larger and better known version is the one in the Musée d'Orsay. This is the smaller version, held in the Whitney Collection until 1990 when it was sold at Sotheby's, New York, for the then record price of US$78 million. The painting is now believed to be in a Swiss private collection. Other than in size, the paintings are almost identical, one evidently being an exact copy of the other, although the Whitney version is executed more freely. It is not known which was first exhibited, nor even which first painted.
This scan is from the Sotheby's sale catalogue 17 May 1990. The original was a fold-out with a central crease. The left and right portions were scanned separately and then stitched. The fold line runs just to the right of the central figure's left cheek. A strip 12 pixels wide corresponding to this crease was cropped out. The registration of the two pieces is not completely perfect.
Date 1876
date QS:P571,+1876-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 78 cm (30.7 in); width: 114 cm (44.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,78U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,114U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history
  • Victor Chocquet, Paris
  • Mme Victor Chocquet (sale: Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, July 1, 3-4, 1899, no. 88, sold for 10,500 francs)
  • Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
  • Prince de Wagram, Paris
  • Etienne Bignou, Paris, Reid and Lefevre, London and Knoedler & Co., New York (purchased from the above for £30,706)
  • John Hay Whitney, New York (acquired from the above on 5 December 1929)
  • Sotheby's sale, New York, 17 May 1990 (acquired by Ryoei Saito for US$78.1 million)
  • ? Private collection, Switzerland
Exhibition history
  • Possibly first exhibited at the 3rd Impressionist group exhibition 1877 (one of the two versions was exhibited but it is not known which)
Inscriptions Signed and dated 76
References L'opera completa di Renoir nel periodo impressionista, 1869-1883, 248 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer Sotheby's sale catalogue 17 May 1990
Permission
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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

The author died in 1876, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.
Other versions
  • Musée d'Orsay version (Google Art Project)
    Musée d'Orsay version (Google Art Project)
  • Copenhagen study
    Copenhagen study

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