The Minuet
Inspiring! The Minuet. This engraving after a painting by Leopold Schmutzler (1864-1940) appeared in the German Illustrated News in the year 1894.
The text to the picture in the periodical reads as follows: “A minuet, the dance in which male and female can display in equal measure innate and acquired charm, sufficed to put a large, elegant society in the most cheerful mood; gallantry still stood in full bloom…” Different from this wood engraving, the painting by Schmutzler was...