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Lutes, stages and dance floors

Music and Dance

Music being made and danced to. Degas's dancers at the barre and a ballet seen from the pit, Toulouse-Lautrec's La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge, Caravaggio's boy musicians, Vermeer's young woman tuning a lute by the window, dervishes turning in a Persian garden, kabuki actors mid-role, a masked ball by Madrazo and a country dance by Tiepolo's son. You can almost hear them.

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At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899 The Musicians Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), 1597 Ichikawa Danjuro IV in the Role of Kagekiyo in the Play Enlightenment from a Series of Portraits of Danjūrō Utagawa Toyokuni II, ca. 1834 Boy with a Lute Frans Hals, ca. 1625 The Dance Class Edgar Degas, 1874 The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892 Madame Thadée Natanson (Misia Godebska, 1872–1950) at the Theater Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895 Bangali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes) Unknown artist, 1709 "Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz Hafiz, ca. 1480 Still life with musical instruments (one of a pair) French Painter, 18th century, 18th century Masquerade Ball Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, 1909 A Dance in the Country Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1755 Allegory of Music Laurent de La Hyre, 1649 Priestesses and Dancers Hugh R. Hopgood, 1914–1915; original ca. 1961–1917 BCE The Shepherd's Song Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1891 Venus and the Lute Player Titian and Workshop, ca. 1565–70 Idle Hours Julian Alden Weir, 1888 Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Ichikawa Danjūrō II in the Role of Soga Gorō from the Play "Yanone" Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1790 A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier Gerard ter Borch the Younger, ca. 1658 The Dancing Class Edgar Degas, ca. 1870 Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque) Georges Seurat, 1887–88 Moulin Rouge: La Goulue Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1891 "The Wedding of Siyavush and Farangis", Folio 185v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, ca. 1525–30 Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727–1772) François Hubert Drouais, 1757 The Love Song Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1868–77 Potted Pine Tree and Koto (Japanese Harp) Keisai Eisen, 19th century Young Woman with a Lute Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1662–63 Dancers Practicing at the Barre Edgar Degas, 1877 The Clown: M. Joret Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1885 The French Comedians Antoine Watteau, ca. 1720 The Ballet from "Robert le Diable" Edgar Degas, 1871 Aristide Bruant, at His Cabaret Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893 Dancers, Pink and Green Edgar Degas, ca. 1890