Cleveland Museum of Art
A Dancing Young Woman as Terpsichore
Angelica Kauffmann
- Date
- c. 1780
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- England
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This dancing figure was inspired by recently excavated wall paintings from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, during a period when neoclassical style was fashionable. Angelica Kauffmann was among the most important painters of the 1800s, achieving success for portraits and history subjects—a category dominated by men. Highly educated, Kauffmann was also an accomplished musician who had struggled to choose between a career in fine art or music. In 1768, Kauffmann was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts, which didn’t admit another woman as a full academician until 1936.
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