Dance in the Country (La danse à la campagne)
Auguste Renoir
c. 1890
Medium
soft-ground etching on Japan paper
Dimensions
plate: 22 × 13.8 cm (8 11/16 × 5 7/16 in.) sheet: 31.9 × 24.9 cm (12 9/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.13.1
About the Artist
Auguste Renoir · 1841–1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a founding figure of Impressionism whose luminous depictions of Parisian leisure, sensuous female forms, and sun-dappled landscapes made him one of the most beloved painters in Western art history. Born in Limoges to a working-class family, Renoir began as a porcelain painter before pursuing fine arts, and this early craft experience gave him facility with the...