Dinner at the Ball: Adolph Menzel
Dinner at the Ball is an 1878 genre oil on canvas painting by prominent German artist Adolph Menzel. Menzel (1815-1905) has been variously characterized as a Realist or a ‘proto-Impressionist’ painter and such is the diversity of his output that both of these descriptions are appropriate. In Dinner at the Ball (also often referred to …