The Dance of the Nymphs (French: La Danse des nymphes) is an 1850 oil painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.Boime p.479-80 A landscape, it displays a group of nymphs dancing in a wooded glen.https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/une-matinee-la-danse-des-nymphes-243 It is also known by the longer title Morning: The Dance of the Nymphs.Gärtner, Padberg, Sander & Stukenbrock p.78
Corot was a leading participant in the Barbizon School, influencing the later Impressionist movement. The painting was displayed at the Salon of 1850 at the Louvre in Paris. It was acquired by the French state in 1851. Today it is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsayhttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE000585 https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010065440
References
Bibliography Boime, Albert. Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815-1848. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Gärtner, Peter J. & Padberg, Martina & Sander, Birgit & Stukenbrock, Christiane. Musée D'Orsay: Art & Architecture. Könemann, 2001.
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