Dance in Art · 1883

Advertising card for spool cotton featuring Jumbo at the opera

Buek and Lindner

Medium:

Oil Painting

Dance:

Ballet

Era:

Late 1800s (Victorian Ballroom)

Source:

Wikimedia Commons

Rights:

Public Domain

Advertising card for spool cotton featuring Jumbo at the opera, by Buek and Lindner, is a public-domain oil painting in the LODance gallery of dance in art, depicting ballet. It's one of thousands of historic images tracing how dancing has been seen and celebrated across the centuries.