The Bal du Moulin de la Galette (or Dance at the Moulin de la Galette) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is one of my favourite paintings at the Musee d'Orsay. It perfectly captures the atmosphere of a time and a place. It was painted by Renoir in 1876 and is an impressionistic depiction of a Sunday afternoon in the Belle Epoque era, at the original Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre. In the late 19th century, this was a place where working class Parisians would dress up and go to dance, drink and eat galettes into the evening.