Couples dancing in a ballroom, painted scene – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Couples dancing in a ballroom, painted scene. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Couples dancing in a ballroom, painted scene
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Couples turn across a crowded floor in this painted ballroom scene, where the dancers' formal dress and the tall windows along the wall suggest a grand evening rather than a casual gathering. Ballroom dancing drew enthusiastic crowds through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and paintings of such events often served as social records as much as art. Look closely at the mix of posture and motion across the couples, which lets the artist capture the rhythm of a waltz-like dance without a single photographic frame.
| Original scan | 1,024 × 884 px |
|---|---|
| Reference | 2a12504u country dance |
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