Dance at Le Moulin ☱ Renoir ☲ Canvas cityscape reflects a conception of distant

reflects a conception of distant tropical places as wild and uncivilized

and a red sun behind a cloud inspired by Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1884 painting Les deux majestés

with the church obscured on the left

Lights were usually only turned on when it was dark

transporting animal carcasses from a successful hunt

Dance at Le Moulin ☱ Renoir ☲ Canvas cityscape reflects a conception of distantDance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876, Bal du Moulin de la Galette) by Pierre Auguste Renoir is an everyday scene of real life, and one of his most celebrated masterpieces. It depicts a Sunday afternoon at the Moulin de la Galette at Montmartre in Paris, where working class Parisians would dress up to dance, drink, and eat galettes into the evening. Jeanne Samary, who appears in many of Renoir's paintings, his brother Edmond, and friend Norbert