Paris » Gallery #6: Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Musée Rodin
Dance at the Moulin de la Galette
(Bal du Moulin de la Galette)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Oil on canvas, 1876
This painting takes place in Montmartre, near Sacré-Coeur, and depicts working-class
Parisians who would gather there on Sunday afternoons to dance, drink and eat till dark.