ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: "The devil's pills" extravaganza in thirty scenes, presented in the Théâtre du Châtelet. Miss Aenea, aerial dancer in the ballet of the "Golden Fly"
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1880
DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 21.5 cm
COMMENTS: "The devil's pills", extravaganza in thirty scenes, presented at the Chatelet Theater. Miss Aenea, the aerial dancer, in the ballet of the "Golden fly"
TITLE OF WORK: Cavorting nude males. Fragmentary Attic black-figure psykter-oinochoe vase
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure psykter-oinochoe vase
DATE: -530
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 30.5 cm diameter
COMMENTS: This fragmentary psykter-oinochoe was broken and reshaped in antiquity. The outer walls, which comprised the oinochoe, are now missing; only the psykter part survives. On the shoulder are polychrome t
TITLE OF WORK: Five Maenads dancing in line between two Sphinxes
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on clay vase
DATE: -500
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 12.1 x 23.3 cm diam
COMMENTS: The daners are clad in chitons and have ivy wreaths in their hair, which identifies them as Maenads, probably taking part in the cult of Dionysos with mystic rites and ecstatic dance
TITLE OF WORK: Dancers dressed in "fustanela"(Foustanelofori choreftes)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
DATE: 1865
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 19 x 27 cm
COMMENTS: The "foustanela" is a pleated skirt, part of the men"s traditional costume of the Greek mainland. It has been popularized as part of the uniform of the soldiers of Presidential (formerly Royal) Guard
TITLE OF WORK: A ball given by the Duke de Tascher la Pagerie, in the Hôtel d'Albe, in Paris (Bal costumé donné par le Duc de Tascher la Pagerie, dans l'Hôtel d'Albe, à Paris)
