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Description: | The Romantic fascination with 'local colour' explains the popularity of Spanish themes among nineteenth-century French painters. The scene represented in this cabinet painting may have been taken from a play. The woman playing a tambourine recalls the type of Spanish dancer who triumphed on Parisian stages in the 1860s. She wears the basquiña, a full skirt padded at the hips and falling to a level several inches above the ankle. The dancer is surrounded by a group of men in sixteenth-century Spanish costumes. This sort of tavern scene was inspired by travel books such as Théophile Gautier's Voyage en Espagne. | Subjects: | musician) tavern everyday life (dancer | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Vogler, F. (German(?) artist, active mid 19th century) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8933... | Go to resource |
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