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2018 France €10 Silver Proof Coin "Masterpieces: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette"
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Item Number: FR18AGPF14
- Mint: Monnaie de Paris
- Denomination: €10
- Quality: Proof
- Issue limit: 2,000 pcs.
- Alloy: 90% Silver
- Diameter: 37 mm=1.46 in
- Weight: 22.2 g=0.78 oz
- Box/Capsule: Yes/Yes
- Certificate: Yes
Additional Information Please click here for an external web page in English!
This is the fourth issue in a three-year, six coin series highlighting some of the most prized art masterpieces housed in France’s museums and historical monuments.
The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since the 17th century the windmill has been known for more than just its milling capabilities. Nineteenth-century owners and millers, the Debray family, made a brown bread, galette, which became popular and thus the name of the windmill and its businesses, which have included a famous guinguette and restaurant. In the 19th century, Le Moulin de la Galette represented diversion for Parisians seeking entertainment, a glass of wine and bread made from flour ground by the windmill.
Dance at Le moulin de la Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at the original Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening.
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