Public domain art: theatre
Artworks depicting theatre, catalogued by the museums that hold them. Each one is free to download, with its colour palette extracted from the image and its maximum print size measured at 300 DPI.
Works in Public domain art: theatre
The French Comedians
Antoine Watteau
14th Street Theatre
Perkins Harnly
Unidentified artist
Illustration from The Comedie of Terence, 19th century reprint
Albrecht Dürer
The Theatrical Atlas
George Cruikshank
Theatrical Mendicants Relieved - have Pity upon all our Aches and Wants!
James Gillray
Theatrical Pleasures, Plate 5: Feasting in the Saloon
Theodore Lane
Rappelés avec enthousiasme!.., from Les Comédiens de Société, published in "Le Charivari"
Aaron Martinet
Imitations at Drury-Lane Theatre (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)
Samuel Collings
Frontispiece, from "A Lecture on Heads" by George Alexander Stevens
George Alexander Stevens
The results of bad dramatic timing, from 'Theater sketches,' published in Le Charivari, 1864
Aaron Martinet
The actor and a street urchin, from 'Dramatic sketches,' published in Le Charivari, April 18, 1864
Aaron Martinet
Opening night, from 'The difficult moments of life,' published in Le Charivari, May 26, 1864
Honoré Daumier
The decline of the drama in 1866, from 'Parisian habits,' published in Le Charivari, May 2, 1866
Honoré Daumier
You may suspect that this is a spectator! But you are wrong.... It's the manager of the theater!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, July 29, 1868
Honoré Daumier
The Manager's Last Kick, or a New Way to Pay Old Debts
Thomas Rowlandson
The Manager's Last Kick, or a New Way to Pay Old Debts
Thomas Tegg
Sports of a Country Fair, Part the Third
Thomas Rowlandson
A Theater Audience
Honoré Daumier
Design for a Theatre
Clemens Wenzel Coudray
A Reconstruction of the Theatre of Pompey
Jan Goeree