The Dance (1799): Art, History and Details
The Dance at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1799, engraving. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
The Dance (1799) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Carl Wilhelm I Kolbe (German, 1757–1835).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The Dance represents a stylistic fusion of classicism and scientific naturalism that dominated landscape art at the end of the 18th century. The circle of nudes dancing to a satyr’s music, ancient ruins, and sacrificial alter evoke a classical idyll, while the surrounding landscape, particularly the tree and foreground burdocks, are rendered with botanical precision.
Object facts
- Title: The Dance
- Date: 1799
- Creator attribution: Carl Wilhelm I Kolbe (German, 1757–1835)
- Culture: Germany, 18th-19th century
- Type: Print
- Technique: engraving
- Collection: PR - Engraving
- Department: Prints
- Accession number: 1916.1066
Collection credit
Gift of Mrs. Edward W. Haines
Further reading listed by the museum
- "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37.
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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