[Recueil. Quadrille d'autrefois, production d'Eugène Pirou. Paper prints]

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Dance in Art · 1897

[Recueil. Quadrille d'autrefois, production d'Eugène Pirou. Paper prints]

Unknown artist

Source:
Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
Rights:
domaine public

[Recueil. Quadrille d'autrefois, production d'Eugène Pirou. Paper prints] is a public-domain artwork in the LODance gallery of dance in art. It's one of thousands of historic images tracing how dancing has been seen and celebrated across the centuries.

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