Dance in Art

The Ballerina, drawing for plate eight from Cirque

Georges Rouault French, 1871–1958

Medium:

Brush and black ink and watercolor, over traces of graphite, with border in pen and black ink, on tan wove tracing paper

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Source:

aic

Rights:

AIC — rights reserved

The Ballerina, drawing for plate eight from Cirque, by Georges Rouault French, 1871–1958, is a public-domain brush and black ink and watercolor, over traces of graphite, with border in pen and black ink, on tan wove tracing paper 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.