While painters like Renoir and Cassat showed us what the audience looked like, the famous impressionist Edgar Degas often painted what was happening on stage.
In works like the colorful Bal du Moulin de Galette by Renoir, we see people interacting, dancing, talking, flirting, and enjoying themselves in the bohemian Montmartre district in Paris.
雷诺阿色彩缤纷的 Bal du Moulin de Galette 等作品中,我们看到人们巴黎波西米亚风格的蒙马区进行互动、跳舞、交谈、调情和享受。
Caillebotte died at 45 and left nearly 70 of his friends' paintings to the French state, including several by Renoir, thus helping ensure his exposure and eventual critical acclaim.
I remember a Monet of people rowing on a river, a Pissaro of a quay and a bridge on the Seine, a Tahitian landscape by Gauguin, and a charming Renoir of a young girl in profile with long yellow hair hanging down her back.