ARTIST: James McNeill Whistler (U.S.A., 1834-1903)
TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller dancing
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink on white velin cassé
DATE: 1892
DIMENSIONS: 20.9 x 31.9 cm
COMMENTS: Whistler must have seen one of the shows of Fuller. Lo?e (Marie-Louise) Fuller (1862-1928) was born in Illinois and debuted in the Folies-Bergère on 05/11/1892.
TITLE OF WORK: At cannon shot, we dance the carmagnole round the Liberty Tree (Au son du canon, l'on danse la carmagnole autour de l'Arbre de la Liberté)
TITLE OF WORK: Gold band diadem, probably representing a Dionysiac thiasos (performing group for the god Dionysos)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, hammered gold strip
DATE: -315
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 29 cm length x 1.8 cm width
COMMENTS: Found in a grave at Amphipolis. The diadem bears holes for tying it on the head with a ribbon. 23 figures, among them Maenads and girls dancers with Kalathiskos on their heads
TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La légende de Joseph"
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1914
COMMENTS: Ballet "La legende de Joseph", on a scenario by Hofmannsthal, choreography by Fokine, music by Strauss, created for the Ballets Russes; first perfromance at the Paris Opéra, 1914.
ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: Pavane by the little Angélique d'Entragues in the fourth act of "Madame Margot"
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1910
DIMENSIONS: 28 x 22 cm
COMMENTS: Pavane dansée, au 4e acte de "Madame Margot", par la petite Angélique d'Entragues. "Les enfants d'Henri IV", aplay by E. Moreau and Clairville at the Théâtre Réjane, Paris.
