Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette.jpg

Le Moulin de la Galette

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Jul 2014 at 20:30:06 (UTC)

Original – The painting depicts an ordinary subject, a moment in the garden of the Moulin de la Galette- an afternoon when people gathered to dance, amuse themselves and have a good time - an impressionist snapshot of real life painted with visible brush strokes.

Alt 1 - Google Art Project 30,000 × 22,300 pixels 638 MP image

Reason: The picture is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. The Impressionist approach to painting is usually identified with a strong concern for light in its changing qualities, often with an emphasis on the effects of a particular passage of time.
Articles in which this image appears: Bal du moulin de la Galette; Pierre-Auguste Renoir;

Music in Paris; Moulin de la Galette; + 9

FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 20:30, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Fabulous painting! CorinneSD (talk) 21:17, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - This is not the image at Musee D'Orsay as the file claims. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 23:02, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Almost thought the guy sitting on the chair and the girl in front of him were fist fighting. Anyways nice image. ///EuroCarGT 04:21, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Good painting, but I'm not sure the resolution fits the size. I mean, it's more than a meter on each side! Not as bad as that recent humongous painting, but still not quite that much resolution. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:14, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Alt - I am sorry, but I am pretty sure that the colours are all wrong in Alt 1. It is not how this picture looks at all... because it looks like here and here. Alt2 has right colours but even less pixels then original, original has 2,200 × 1,639 while Alt 2 has only 1,740 × 1,293 pixels. I don't mind an alt, but it has to have the right colours. Hafspajen (talk) 15:47, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support Alt - per Crisco above and noting the original is effectively unsourced. That appears to be a derivative version of the museum version. I dare say it is to be found on VintPrint . Coat of Many Colours (talk) 11:29, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair they actually do offer the unvarnished (whatever) version of the Google image. Take it all back, Vint. Sorry. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 15:01, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Alt 2 - Lightened in LCH space

I've uploaded a lighter version of this (reduced to 2.25 MP) in LCH space. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 12:53, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Needless to say I oppose Alt2 (my own file) as WP:FP?#8 inauthentic. Nominating for "Featured" wasn't the point of the upload. It was uploaded into a category Commons:Category:Derivative works of Bal du moulin de la Galette by Renoir and it's full name is File:Auguste Renoir - Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette - Musée d'Orsay RF 2739 (derivative work - AutoContrast edit in LCH space).jpg. I'm tolerably curious about the dark colour of the original. I must have visited the d'Orsay dozens of times, but one can't remember everything. I wonder if that greenish look is supposed to represent gas-light? I mean I just don't know. I'll research as I am able and report back. The point about these uploads of LCH edited versions is to provide thumbnails per DCoetzee's remarks elsewhere and I made the relevant WP:BOLD edit here. I'll see how that is received and might then start routinely doing these. I do agree there is a problem here, but for the life of me I really can't see how we can put these tinkered versions up for "featuring". Coat of Many Colours (talk) 17:02, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This gets you into the Musée d'Orsay at Ph.D. level in Google's virtual tour. It's in room 32, fifth floor, two rooms to the left of this location. I must say it looks absolutely stunning under the lights (there's also an overhead vault letting in daylight). That remark of mine about gaslights obviously stupid. It seems the naughty French of those days held their dances in the afternoon. It seems plain that the Google Art Project image simply looks too dark, but that image is uniform across all the Musée d'Orsay pages featuring this painting that I've seen. I'm really not prepared to mess with it as a "Featured" nomination. Others may feel differently, but please don't vote for my tinkered version! And I'm sticking with the Google Art Project image, although I do agree there's an issue there. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 17:52, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:01, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn nomination, Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:01, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]