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Public domain art of the day: "Ready for the Dance" - oil painting by Augustus Jules Bouvier (1827-1881)

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Larger version for viewing:

https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/Augustus-Jules-Bouvier/42745/Ready-for-the-Dance.html

Sources:

https://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2010/10/augustus-jules-bouvier-ready-for-dance.html

https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en/bouvier/ready-for-the-dance/nomedium/asset/7201

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Thats much better than my profane utterance! 🌸

Sacred dancers.

Maybe! I like to imagine them as shrine maidens who perform sacred dances for the gods, and convey divine oracles to their communities. Kind of like the miko in Japan.