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title: Choreography for a Ballet, 1617
author: Unknown Artist
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license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
updated: 2026-10-08
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# Choreography for a Ballet, 1617

_Authored by Unknown Artist_

## Image File

[![Choreography for a Ballet, 1617](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/22239.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/22239.jpg)

## Image Caption

Choreography for the ballet *La Délivrance de Renaud*, etching on paper, 1617.

Depicted here are four figures in different poses for the *ballet de cour* ("court ballet") of *La Délivrance de Renaud*, once danced by the young monarch Louis XIII of France himself.

British Museum, London.

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