5th to 18th centuries [400 to 1800]

Almehs ou public dancers (Almées ou danseuses publiques)

1800

Painting, watercolor

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Estamp

Dancer’s head
450
Tapestry, wool
42 cm high
France, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquitées Egyptiennes

Hubert Robert (1733-1808)

Paysage animé à l’obélisque cassé et tris pyramides
1800
Painting, oil on canvas
114.5 x 82.5 cm

Fesquet, G. (drawing); Deshays, Celestin (engraving)
Dancer of Cairo – Voyage to the Orient (Almeh du Caire. Voyage en Orient)
1800
114.5 x 82.5 cm
Painting, oil on canvas

Dervishes dancing. Detail
1750
Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
U.S.A., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Artes

Daniel Rabel

“Ballet du Château de Bicêtre”: Entrée des Egiptiens et Egiptiennes
1632
Drawing, pen, wash and gouache, touched with silver
28.7 x 44 cm
France, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 32658

Filippino Lippi (Florence 1406 – 1469 Spoletto)
Worship of the Egyptian Bull-God, Apis
1500
Painting

Dancer
1150
Sculpture, ivory
5.6 x 18.8 cm
France, Paris, Musée du Louvre

Female dancer
1100
Sculpture, ivory plaquette
From the Fatimide period in Egypt

Dancer’s head
450
Tapestry, wool
42 cm high
France, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquitées Egyptiennes

A line of dancers decorating a textile

450

Textile

From Antinoe, Egypt