TITLE OF WORK: Entertaining figures gathered around a Kursi
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1750
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 35.5 x 48.5 cm
COMMENTS: Most probably a work of a Venetian artist established in Constantinople. Kursi is a table covered with cloth, underneath which a brazier provides warmth.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul
TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "Les biches"
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1924
COMMENTS: "Les biches", ballet in one act with songs. Music by Francis Poulenc, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; curtain, décors and costumes by Marie Laurencin
TITLE OF WORK: Two revelers dancing with flutist in the middle
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, black-figure vase
DATE: -560
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 19 cm diameter
COMMENTS: From the island Aegina, in the SAronic Gulf, Greece. Signed by the ceramist Ergotimos. One of the rare cases that a Greek vase bears the signature of the ceramist, rather than the painter.
ARTIST: Stanis?aw Rejchan or Reichan (Poland, 1858-1919) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: "L'amour et Pryché", a ballet presented at the Palais-Bourbon. Evening of the 16th of March offered by the President of the House of Representatives
TITLE OF WORK: Russian season at the Paris Opera. The Ballets Russes. Comoedia Illustré magazine, Special number (Saison russe à l'Opéra de Paris. Les Ballets Russes. Comoedia Illustré, numéro spécial
TITLE OF WORK: Opera Theatre - Accident that happened to Miss Emma Livry during a rehearsal of "The mute of Portici"
TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
DATE: 1862
DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 22.5 cm
COMMENTS: The accident occured in the Paris Opera, on 15/11/1862. Emma Livry died after eight months' suffering, on 26/07/1863, aged twenty. The engraving appeared in Le Monde Illustré, Paris, 29/11/1862.
ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: The return, scene from the 3d act of the ballet "The two pigeons" by André Messager, at the Paris Opéra (Opéra. Les Deux Pigeons. Ballet de M. André Messager. Le retour, scène du 3e acte)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
DATE: 1886
DIMENSIONS: 31 x 18.5 cm
COMMENTS: Rosita Mauri as Gourouli, Mlle Sanlaville as Pepie, Mlle Montaubry as Mikalia
TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of Thebes, on a base representing Pharaonian dancers (Danseuse de Thèbes, sur un socle représentant des scènes de fresques pharaoniennes)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze and ivory
DATE: 1924
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: On the base are depicted scenes from the tomb of Tutanchamon, Egypt.
