ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: "La fille mal gardée", ballet pantomime presented at theEden Theatre. Scene of the 1st act. Mother Simone (Mme Foriani), Lisette (Miss Laus), Colin (Mr. Nata)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
DATE: 1886
DIMENSIONS: 31 x 21 cm
COMMENTS: "La fille mal gardée", ballet pantomime presented at the Eden Theater, Paris. Scene from act 1. Mrs. Foriani as Mother Simone; Miss Laus as Lisette; Mr. Nata as Colin.
ARTIST: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (Netherlands, 1836-1912)
TITLE OF WORK: The Golden hour
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1908
DIMENSIONS: 35.5 x 35.5 cm
COMMENTS: This woman here does not engage the viewer's gaze but admires a bronze statuette. The statuette is not an ancient work, but Jean-Léon Gérôme's hoop dancer. The hoop dancer was Gérôme's own version of
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, feather (Federlithographie)
DATE: 1829
DIMENSIONS: 36.2 x 23.1 cm
COMMENTS: Scnoderhüpfeln is the custom requiring from a dancer to order to the musicians the dance of his preference by singing to them an improvised couplet. This is an illustration from the book "Baierische G
TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La boutique fantasque": The tarantella
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1919
COMMENTS: "La boutique fantasque", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by G. Rossini, arranged by O. Respighi, choreography by L. Massine adapted from the ballet "La fée des poupées" de J.
TITLE OF WORK: A music-hall scene shot in a Joinville studio for "The shoe-polish king" (Une scène de music-hall tournée dans un studio de Joinville pour "Le roi du cirage")