COMMENTS: Fragment of an arch-vault found on the façade of a house in Bourges. Apparently recovered from the nearby church of Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier, now destroyed. The dancer has lanced a ball with his left
TITLE OF WORK: Side A: Symposiast, flute girl and komast. Side B: Youth kneeling on a couch, youth dancing and youth playing the pipes
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup
DATE: -485
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 31.4 cm width
COMMENTS: INTERIOR: youth playing pipes. A youth moves to the right, bending forward as he plays a pair of pipes. He has a dotted chlamys with a black border draped over his left shoulder and a red band in his
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
TITLE OF WORK: Maenads dancing. Relief of the 1st century AD (Ménades dansant. Oeuvre romaine du 1er siècle après J.-C.)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
DATE: 50
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 42.5 x 56 x 16 cm
COMMENTS: Ce relief lacunaire montre deux Ménades, figures habituelles du cortège de Dionysos, entraînées dans une danse extatique. Le motif, assez fréquent dans le monde romain, reprend un original créé par l'
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Rome, Italy
TITLE OF WORK: Study for the painting Le Chahut (Etude pour Le Chahut)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
DATE: 1890
DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 21.5 cm
COMMENTS: The four dancers of Le Chahut are Coccinelle, L'Artilleur, La Housarde and Blondinet. They appeared regularly in the cabaret Concert de l'Ancien-Monde, situated on the rue de Clichy, Paris.
