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The image shows an audience member in a theater watching a ballet performance. The foreground features a reclining figure appearing relaxed. In the background, two dancers stand on stage in dynamic poses. The theater interior is depicted with minimal detail, including an additional figure in an upper balcony. The monochrome illustration uses loose, expressive lines to convey motion and atmosphere.
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The image shows an audience member in a theater watching a ballet performance. The foreground features a reclining figure appearing relaxed. In the background, two dancers stand on stage in dynamic poses. The theater interior is depicted with minimal detail, including an additional figure in an upper balcony. The monochrome illustration uses loose, expressive lines to convey motion and atmosphere.

National Gallery of Art · Print

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Honoré Daumier

Date
1856
Medium
lithograph
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.143.1196
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dr. Armand Hammer, 1983)
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Seated figure
  • interior
  • architecture
  • inscription
  • calligraphic
  • Man
  • Figures

NGA object ID 196698. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.