At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance At the Moulin Rouge, the Dance is an oil-on-canvas painted by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was painted in 1890, and is the second of a number of graphic paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting the Moulin Rouge cabaret built in Paris in 1889. It portrays two dancers dancing the can-can in the middle of the crowded dance hall. A recently discovered inscription by Toulouse-Lautrec on the back of the painting reads: "The instruction of the new ones by Valentine the Boneless." This means that the man to the left of the woman dancing, is
The Storm (painting) to the novel "Paul et Virginie", first published by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in 1788, and others to the fourth century romance "Daphnis and Chloe" by the Hellenistic writer Longus. Evidence for the first interpretation comes from the specific motif of the couple running from the rain and covered by a billowing drapery corresponding to a famous and often illustrated scene in "Paul et Virginie": The Storm (painting) The Storm (La Tempête) is a painting by French artist Pierre Auguste Cot, completed in 1880. Currently, on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was commissioned from the artist in