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Image: The Peasant Dance (La Danse Paysanne)

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The Peasant Dance (La Danse Paysanne)

before 1755
18th century
500 x 336 mm (19.7 x 13.2 in.)

Benoit Audran, II, French, (1698–1772)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French, (1684–1721)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching and engraving on laid paper
State: Third of three states
Print impression quality: Excellent
Marks: Signed in plate, lower right: “B. Audran Sculp.,” with full inscriptions
Bibliography: Dacier and Vuaflart 27 iii/iii (vol. 3, pp. 17–18); Portalis and Beraldi 6 (vol. 1, p. 50); Goncourt 125 (1875).
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1944
Accession Number: 1944.D1.25

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This object has the following keywords:
dance*, dancers*, genre*, peasants*, theater (discipline)*
  • 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.]
  • dancers - Use for those who engage in the activity of dancing or who practice the art of dance, especially as a profession. [November 1994 scope note added. February 1993 related term added. November 1992 alternate 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.]
  • theater (discipline) - Use for the professionally oriented study of theater, involving training, practice, and study in the processes of doing theater. For the academically oriented study of theater, use "drama." [August 1995 descriptor changed, was "theater". April 1993 related term added.]

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  • plate Dimensions: 500 x 336 mm (19.7 x 13.2 in.)

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