Cleveland Museum of Art
The Dance
Carl Wilhelm I Kolbe
- Date
- 1799
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Germany, 18th-19th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The Dance represents a stylistic fusion of classicism and scientific naturalism that dominated landscape art at the end of the 18th century. The circle of nudes dancing to a satyr’s music, ancient ruins, and sacrificial alter evoke a classical idyll, while the surrounding landscape, particularly the tree and foreground burdocks, are rendered with botanical precision.
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