# Bal du moulin de la Galette

By [Pierre-Auguste Renoir](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/pierre-auguste-renoir.md>), 1876.

Renoir fills a Montmartre dance garden with moving figures and patches of natural and artificial light, capturing urban leisure as a shifting atmosphere.

## Details

- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 131.5 × 176.5 cm
- Collection: [Musée d'Orsay](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/musee-orsay.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/bal-du-moulin-de-la-galette-497>)

- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Impressionism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/impressionism.md>)

## Image

![A crowded outdoor dance in Montmartre, with couples and friends gathered under trees and strings of lights.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/orsay-moulin-galette/full.jpg?v=20301817756ddc6528b6351d6f138f3d6255d837227fb0a0cd5a8df9ecf3725e>)

## Sources & credits

- Image via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
- Gustave Caillebotte Bequest, 1896
- [Image source](<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renoir,_Pierre-Auguste_-_Dance_at_Le_Moulin_de_la_Galette,_1876.jpg>)
- Artwork metadata based on Musée d'Orsay collection records; image provenance is recorded per artwork.

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