May Ball

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1763

This is a painting of a ballroom scene. The composition shows an elegant and festive ballroom filled with many guests. Dancers, dressed in opulent costumes, are dancing in pairs in the center. The upper balconies are… · description from the collection

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Artist: Jean-Michel Moreau ¹
Date: 1763 ¹
Medium: pen and black ink with brown and gray wash, watercolor, and gouache, heightened with white gouache on laid paper ¹
Original: 5,140 × 3,273 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

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In the Roman calendar, September 3 marked the feast of Bacchus, Roman god of wine, agriculture, and drunken revelry. Shown here, to the left of the grape stomp, is a red-nosed Bacchus, adding freshly harvested grapes.

A work made of etching on tan laid paper.

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