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This picture, together with its companion piece Dancing Girl with Castanets (also in the National Gallery’s collection), was made to decorate the dining room of the Paris apartment of one of Renoir’s most important clients, Maurice Gangnat. Of the two dancers, this figure has the more static pose. She stands with her weight slightly on her back foot, as though she is more focused on tapping out the rhythm on her tambourine while the other woman dances with her castanets. She taps only lightly, using her fingertips rather than the heel of the hand. Renoir used Georgette Pigeot, a dressmaker who often posed for him, as a model for the figure. Her flowing costume shimmers with colour, and, like her counterpart’s, has elements of oriental or near-Eastern style, not only in the short, gold-coloured bodice and blue and gold slippers, but in what seem to be her harem pants.
Title
Dancing Girl with Tambourine
Date
1909
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 155 x W 64.8 cm
Accession number
NG6317
Acquisition method
Bought, 1961
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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