Dance in Art

Design for the Divertissement from "La Pastorale" (First Entrée of the opera-ballet "Les Muses" by Danchet and Campra")

Jean I Bérain (French, 1640–1711)

Medium:

pen and black ink and brush and gray wash with red, blue, and yellow wash, with graphite

Collection:

Drawings

Source:

cma

Rights:

CC0

Design for the Divertissement from "La Pastorale" (First Entrée of the opera-ballet "Les Muses" by Danchet and Campra"), by Jean I Bérain (French, 1640–1711), is a public-domain pen and black ink and brush and gray wash with red, blue, and yellow wash, with graphite 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.