Dance in Art

Costumed Dancers Performing in a Garden Tavern

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780)

Medium:

brush and brown and gray wash, with gouache, watercolor, and traces of graphite

Collection:

Drawings

Source:

cma

Rights:

CC0

Costumed Dancers Performing in a Garden Tavern, by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780), is a public-domain brush and brown and gray wash, with gouache, watercolor, and traces of 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.