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Identification and Content “Young Girls Dancing Around an Obelisk” is an oil painting on canvas by Hubert Robert completed in 1798 at Paris. The work describes a festival occurring somewhere in Egypt during the time when the work was produced. A group of ladies are dancing around a broken Obelisk. Standing halfway up the monument, three young men are accompanying them by playing music. On the bottom of the painting, a woman with four children is pointing to the fallen parts of the Obelisk and the face of a Pharaoh which is broken in half. At the left side, there are two adults gossiping with a younger person lying on a distorted statue of a Pharaoh. In addition, three Pyramids and a huge crowd of people compose the background. Composition All the monuments are in a vertical position to giv