Dance in the Country (La danse à la campagne)
Auguste Renoir · c. 1890 · soft-ground etching on Japan paper
Public domain
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About this picture
Dance in the Country (La danse à la campagne) is a public-domain illustration by Auguste Renoir, dated c. 1890. Soft-ground etching on Japan paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Dance in the Country (La danse à la campagne)” (c. 1890) is the kind of picture Renoir built from soft, decorative color, first learned while he painted porcelain.
About the artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a French Impressionist painter of figures, dance halls, and later warm nudes and still lifes. He trained as a porcelain painter, which shows in the soft, decorative color.
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