Madame Deshayes and James Harvey d'Egville, Antoine Cardon, 1804

André-jean-jacques deshayes as achilles and james harvey d'egville as mentor in a scene from the ballet-pantomime achille et diedamie from a painting by antoine cardon. Deshayes is wearing a greek tunic, not female costume as stated on the source website as well as elsewhere. This is one of the earliest depictions in art of a ballet lift. Date: 1804. Medium: aquatint print.