Painting and Sculpture
Ballerina Posing for a Photographer is an oil on canvas painting executed in 1875 by the French artist Edgar Degas. It depicts a young ballet dancer posing in front of a standing mirror; in the background, through a large window, is seen an elevated view of the walls of the houses opposite and the snow-covered rooftops of Paris. It is held in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow.
Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed.
Joanna Koerten.
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