Generally characterized by its thickness, the painter's touch here is finer and faster, suggesting that it is a sketch. Occupying the center of the painting, two moving dancers face each other in a sort of confrontation. They are surrounded by several figures: on the left, there are musicians, one of whom blows into a “zuma” (a kind of conical-shaped oboe), while the other plays a plucked string instrument. The scene is set in a natural landscape: it stands out against a twilight sky which contrasts, in the lower part, with the intensity of the blue of the sea. Object Type: painting. Date: circa 1835. Dimensions: height: 77 cm (30.3 in) ; width: 124 cm (48.8 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Brest’s Museum of Fine Arts. Les Danseurs Albanais by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (c. 1835)
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