the dance at the moulin de la galette auguste renoirShown at the third Impressionist exhibition in 1877, Dance at the Moulin de la Galette is arguably Auguste Renoir's most celebrated masterpiece. The painter, then living in Montmartre, was a regular at this open air dance hall on rue Lepic, where Parisian youth gathered to dance on Sunday afternoons beneath the trees. Renoir had his friends pose for him there painters and the neighborhood's regular models among them his friend the journalist Georges