Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The painting shows a Sunday dance at the Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre, Paris. Renoir painted it in 1876, during the height of Impressionism.

Yes. Renoir showed work in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 alongside artists such as Monet, Degas, Pissarro, and Morisot.

The painting includes Renoir's friends and patrons at the Maison Fournaise restaurant in Chatou. It was painted around 1880 to 1881, and the woman with the dog is Aline Charigot, who later became Renoir's wife.

Yes. Renoir continued painting despite serious arthritis in his later years, sometimes with brushes strapped to his hands. He died in 1919 after a long career that began before the 1874 Impressionist exhibition.