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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 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 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 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