the theatre premi sortie pierre auguste renoir national gallery london 2024

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At the Theatre (La PremiÃ¨re Sortie) Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the National Gallery in London 2024. We seem to be sitting in a box at the theatre with two young women, though we canât be sure what is going on. We canât see the stage and one of the women is looking away from us, the back of her bonnet hiding most of the otherâs face. This sense of mystery is enhanced by the nearer womanâs pose, leaning forward slightly as though something is absorbing her attention. It may not be the stage performance that has captured her eye: in nineteenth-century Paris, attending the theatre was as much about social status as seeing the show. We get a strong sense of an atmosphere of people-watching in this picture. Among the audience in the background, a man in the lower tier and a woman above him stand out. They seem to have their eyes turned, either on us, the viewer, or on the young woman in the box.