I'm particularly curious about #2. With an artist like Poussin you feel there ought to be some very good, esoteric reason for the gender imbalance, but I'm afraid it may simply be that these dancers were stock figures from his sketchbook and he pasted them in here- without too much thought- simply because they (sort of) fitted.
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Date: 2008-08-02 07:21 pm (UTC)I'm particularly curious about #2. With an artist like Poussin you feel there ought to be some very good, esoteric reason for the gender imbalance, but I'm afraid it may simply be that these dancers were stock figures from his sketchbook and he pasted them in here- without too much thought- simply because they (sort of) fitted.