The Peasant Dance (La Danse Paysanne)

Benoit Audran II after Jean-Antoine Watteaubefore 1755

Details

Title: The Peasant Dance (La Danse Paysanne)
Creator: Benoit Audran II after Jean-Antoine Watteau
Date Created: before 1755
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “B. Audran Sculp.,” with full inscriptions
Print State: Third of three states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1944
Materials & Techniques: Etching and engraving on laid paper
Keywords: dance, dancers, genre, peasants, theater (discipline)
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 500 mm x 336 mm (19.69 in. x 13.23 in.).
Bibliography: Dacier and Vuaflart 27 iii/iii (vol. 3, pp. 17–18); Portalis and Beraldi 6 (vol. 1, p. 50); Goncourt (1875) 125
Associated People: Created by Benoit Audran II (French, 1698-1772), After Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)
Accession Number: 1944.D1.25

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