Figure 49 Renoir's three canvases of dancing couples of 1882-83 also give few Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Luncheon of the Boating anecdotal clues. Philippe Burty wrote of them in 1883: Party, 1881. Oil on can- vas, 129.5 X 172.7 cm (51 x 68 in.). Washington, One could add to them the literary commentary so dear to the The Phillips Collection. French imagination, but I can see in them only an art that is skilled in painting faces flushed with pleasure, relaxed by deli- cious fatigue, an art that makes clothing that is cut well and worn 80 well seem elegant and distinguished. While two of these paintings are now titled Dance in the Country (Paris, Musee d'Orsay) and Dance at Eougival [FIGURE 50], Renoir further revealed his lack of 76