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Sepia reproduction of a genre scene: a woman playing a pipe at a table, children and a cat and dog nearby in a dim room.

Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, known as The Dance Lesson

A sepia photogravure reproduction shows a seated woman in a white bodice playing a pipe at a table while children and a small cat and dog gather around her in a dim interior. A jug hangs on the wall at right, and a hat rests on the floor in the lower left.

Artist
anoniem
Date
1804-1877
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3051 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1877.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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