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The Country Dance

Maker (French, 1684 - 1721)
Additional Title(s)
  • La Danse Paysanne
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
Dateca. 1711
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensions17 x 12 3/4 in. (43.2 x 32.4 cm.)
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Adele S. Browning Memorial Collection, gift of Mildred Browning Green and Honorable Lucius Peyton Green
Label TextWatteau invented the fête galante, a type of painting depicting elegant ladies and gentlemen socializing in pastoral settings. In this example, a couple dances to the sound of a hurdy-gurdy in a forest clearing. Dancing, a metaphor of love and courtship, plays a central role in many of Watteau’s fêtes galantes. A striking feature of the painting is the roundel containing the figures, which is set into a rectangular wood panel. The area surrounding the roundel was added later, probably between 1715 and 1731.
Status
On view
Object number78.20.19
Photography © 2015 Fredrik Nilsen
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Object number: 27.92
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Object number: 16.4
John Paul Jones
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1921
Object number: 24.9
Sabine Houdon at four years old
Jean-Antoine Houdon
1800-1900
Object number: 27.95
Washington
Jean-Antoine Houdon
late 18th-early 19th Century
Object number: 24.11
George Washington
Jean-Antoine Houdon
1924
Object number: 24.12
Photography © 2015 Fredrik Nilsen
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1782
Object number: 27.186
Dans le Parc
Jean-Baptiste Hilair
ca. 1795
Object number: 78.20.9A
Dans le Jardin
Jean-Baptiste Hilair
ca. 1795
Object number: 78.20.9B
Comtesse Pélagie Roza Potocka Sapieha
Auguste Louis Jean Baptiste Riviere
ca. 1793 -1794
Object number: 78.20.17
Hauling in the Net, Twilight
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
n.d.
Object number: 26.117
Cupid Among Roses, or Love the Sentinel
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
ca. 1775
Object number: 78.20.4