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A pale-skinned girl wearing an arctic-blue ballet costume stands looking at us and almost fills this vertical painting. The scene is painted with blended strokes, giving it a soft, almost blurry look. In pale pink ballet slippers, she stands with her feet in fifth position, so the toes are turned out while her feet are almost parallel, the heel of the front foot touching the toes of the other. Her body faces our left, and she turns her head to look at us with blue eyes. She has delicate, dark brows, rosy cheeks, and full pink lips. Her long honey-brown hair is tied with a sky-blue ribbon…
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The Dancer

Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

1874

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 142.5 x 94.5 cm (56 1/8 x 37 3/16 in.) ; framed: 164.1 x 116.2 cm (64 5/8 x 45 3/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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