{"id":632525,"date":"2026-10-16T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632525\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:16:08","slug":"head-to-paris-to-see-renoir-masterpiece-suggests-eurostar-but-the-work-is-in-london-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632525\/","title":{"rendered":"Head to Paris to see Renoir masterpiece, suggests Eurostar\u2014but the work is in London &#8211; The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Eurostar is using an image of Pierre-Auguste Renoir\u2019s masterpiece Dance at the Moulin de la Galette (1876) to lure London tube travellers onto its speedy service to Paris. An advert for the high-speed rail service features a picture of the Impressionist painting, which depicts the boisterous entertainment centre at the top of Montmartre, just beyond a sliding train door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">But there is a problem. Although the picture\u2019s home is the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay in Paris, for the moment it is on loan in the National Gallery\u2019s exhibition Renoir &amp; Love (until 31 January 2027). For British art afficados, there are plenty of reasons to travel to Orsay, but Dance at the Moulin de la Galette is not one of them. \u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t you?\u201d, Eurostar asks in its advert. Because it\u2019s in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eurostar is using an image of Pierre-Auguste Renoir\u2019s masterpiece Dance at the Moulin de la Galette (1876) to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,72765,156,3427,111,139,69,6943,30524],"class_list":["post-632525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-diary","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibitions","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paris","tag-pierre-auguste-renoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}