Interior: Dancing girls entertaining chieftains

Bresdin, Rodolphe (1822-1885)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1870
Height:
24.2 cm  (9 1/2 in.)
Width:
32.6 cm  (12 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
graphite over red chalk on paper

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1977.11.1]

Description

Four women dancing, two of them playing castanets, a third clappers(?); woman playing tambourine and man playing cymbals.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Castanets [2423]
Clappers [2426]
Tambourine [2746]
Cymbals [2451]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Rodolphe Bresdin 1822-1885 (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2000) 23.

RIdIM record id

1603