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The Country Dance, c. 1637. Etching on ivory laid paper.
Etching on ivory laid paper · Image: 13.3 × 19.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Country Dance
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain French, 1600-1682
- Date
- c. 1637
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 13.3 × 19.2 cm (5 1/4 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 13.9 × 20 cm (5 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1600–1682
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.




