- Description
- Engraving; including legend and border: 26 x 33 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Lincoln Kirstein Collection.
- Subject
- Branle (Dance)
- Note
- Outdoor village wedding celebration. Several couples dance a branle at center; elderly man at right peers through glasses at his wife, who dances with another man. Two musicians play wind instruments at left. Women wear high-waisted dresses; men wear wide-brimmed hats, lace collars, short-waisted doublets, loose pants. A church, trees and houses in background.
- Four stanzas of Alexandrine poetry.
- Cf. *R-*MGR Vuillier, Gaston. A history of dancing, 1898, p. 79. Reproduction.
- Call Number
- *MGZFH Bos A Bra 1
- OCLC
- NYPY737048618-F
- Author
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.
- Title
[Branle.
- Imprint
Paris] le Blond execud avec privilege [165-?]
- Local Note
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- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Prints (Graphic arts) -- Social dancing -- 17th century.
Social dancing -- 17th century
- Research Call Number
*MGZFH Bos A Bra 1