Society Couples Dancing, Johann Theodor de Bry

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Society Couples Dancing, Johann Theodor de Bry

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Six couples of well-dressed figures dancing to music played by a group of four musicians at left. From a series of five plates, after the woodcut by Sebald Beham (Pauli 1245).
Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561–1623 Bad Schwalbach)

Sebald Beham (1500–1550) was a German painter and printmaker, especially noted for his engravings. Born in Nuremberg, he spent the later part of his career in Frankfurt. He was one of the most important of the "Little Masters", the group of German artists making prints in the generation after Dürer.

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1850 - 1950
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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