Dancing Peasants
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Dancing Peasants
ca. 1580-162316th/17th century
Johann Theodor de Bry, aka Jan Theodore de Bry, German, (1561–1623)
After Hans Sebald Beham, German, (1500–1550)
- dance - Performing art form realized in rhythmic movement, creating visual designs by a series of poses and tracing of patterns through space in the course of measured units of time. [November 1994 scope note added. February 1993 related term added.]
- genre - Use for pictorial representations, which may be in various media, that represent scenes or events from everyday life; usually used with another term such as "paintings" or "prints." [April 1991 descriptor moved.]
- peasants - Use for free people who support themselves by tilling the soil, either as small landholders or hired laborers. For the social class comprised of these people, use "peasantry." For those in a condition of servitude under feudalism, owing services to a lord and commonly attached to the lord's land, use "serfs." [December 1992 descriptor added.]
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Johann Theodor de Bry, aka Jan Theodore de Bry, German, (1561–1623) Hans Sebald Beham, German, (1500–1550) . Dancing Peasants, ca. 1580-1623. Engraving. : mm (in.). DAC accession number 1940.D1.75. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1940. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: R. Lee) .