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Dance at Bougival
Dance at Bougival (French: La Danse à Bougival) is an 1883 work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. It has been described as "one of the museum's most beloved works".
Subject.
The work depicts two of Renoir's friends, Suzanne Valadon and Paul Lhote. The setting is the French village of Bougival, about 15 km from the center of Paris. Many Impressionists including
– Strawberry Thief textile design
- Walter Osborne – "Apple Gathering, Quimperlé"
- Paul Philippoteaux – "Gettysburg Cyclorama"
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
- "By the Seashore"
- "Dance at Bougival"
- "Dance in the Country"
- "The Umbrellas (Les Parapluies)"
- Ilya Repin – "Religious Procession in Kursk Province"
- William Wetmore Story – "Chief Justice John Marshall" (bronze)
- James Tissot
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