Dance in Art · 1838

Dance on the Battery in the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant

Asher Brown Durand

Medium:

Oil Painting

Dance:

General Dance

Era:

Early 1800s (Waltz Revolution)

Source:

Wikimedia Commons

Rights:

Public Domain

Dance on the Battery in the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant, by Asher Brown Durand, is a public-domain oil painting in the LODance gallery of dance in art. It's one of thousands of historic images tracing how dancing has been seen and celebrated across the centuries.