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La danse improvisée(1799 to 1864 France)Colnaghi
Possibly Paris, Salon, 1834, no. 1662, as Le bal improvisée. Description:
This charming canvas is a typical genre painting by the Parisian artist Jean Alphonse Roehn. As the work’s title suggests, its appeal lies in the spontaneity of the subject. As the seated woman improvises a song on a broom, the other dances to the melody, and it is as if the artist is offering the viewer a glimpse into the lives of the bourgeois, in which the young women find ways to entertain themselves in what was probably a rather secluded, though privileged, world. In this regard the work finds a precedent in the paintings of Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) and, particularly, Marguerite Gérard (1761-1837), in whose oeuvre playful dogs and cats regularly appear. Much like the works of both these artists, and indeed the domestic genre scenes that became so popular later on in the nineteenth century, our picture also reveals the artist’s interest in the depiction of the interior itself - evident here in the attention given to the furniture, the cup and saucer, as well as the paintings on the wall.
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