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Selected Works Leisure & Celebration

Song, dance, theater and the circus are chosen themes for this group of artworks. From Orpheus to the circus, not to mention the great playwrights and the village ball, see what people have done for entertainment since ancient times.

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Paintings

Eustache LE SUEUR

Clio, Euterpe, and Thalia

c. 1652-55
Paintings

Jean-Antoine WATTEAU

Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles

c. 1718-19
Paintings

Gerrit van HONTHORST

Concert on a Balcony

1624
Paintings

Philips WOUWERMANS (Haarlem, 1619-Haarlem, 1668)

Parade with a Fatted Ox, also...

Circa 1650-55
Paintings

Peter Paul RubensSiegen (Westphalia), 1577 - Antwerp,...

The Village Fête

1635-38
Paintings

Thomas GAINSBOROUGH (Sudbury, Suffolk, 1727-London,...

Conversation in a Park

1745
Prints and Drawings

Claude GILLOT (Langres, 1673-Paris, 1722)

"My friends, let us not...

Between 1697 and 1718
Near Eastern Antiquities

A grimacing mask

Late 7th century-early 6th century BC

Carthage, Tunisia
Near Eastern Antiquities

Bottle decorated with figures of...

Sassanid era, c. 5th-6th century AD

Reshy, Dailaman province, Iran?
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Sarcophagus of the Muses

150-160 CE

Found on the Ostian Way in Rome, in Vigna...