Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bal du moulin de la Galette — Impressionist joy

The painter of happiness. His Impressionist masterpieces — dappled light on dancing couples, bathers in pearly skin tones, gardens trembling with color — are the most sensuous celebrations of pleasure in French painting. The Bal du moulin de la Galette captures a Montmartre afternoon with a warmth no photograph could match.

Key works

• Bal du moulin de la Galette1876— Parisian pleasure — light filtering through the trees
  Musee d'Orsay, Paris
• Luncheon of the Boating Party1881— Friends, food, wine, and shimmer
  Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

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