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Le doyen des Zéphirs; ou Le roi des voltigeurs.
- Title
- Le doyen des Zéphirs; ou Le roi des voltigeurs.
- Author
- Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842.
- Publication
- [Paris, 1816?]
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Details
- Description
- Engraving in line border, colored; plate mark: 24.4 x 19 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- An anonymous caricature of the aging Auguste Vestris, possibly published between the time of his last Paris Opéra première, in Pierre Gardel's ballet L'Enfant prodigue, April 28, 1816, and his official farewell, September 27, 1816.
- Depicts Vestris as an old man with large beak-like nose and exaggerated muscular development of limbs. The dancer, wearing a short sheer tunic trimmed with flowers, is on left demi-pointe with right leg extended effacé en avant.
- Cf. Lifar, Serge. Auguste Vestris, le dieu de la danse, 1950. Reproduction of the caricature and watercolor upon which it was based.
- Call Number
- *MGZFB Ves Au C 2
- OCLC
- NYPY767027165-F
- Author
- Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842.
- Title
- Le doyen des Zéphirs; ou Le roi des voltigeurs.
- Imprint
- [Paris, 1816?]
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Dance -- Caricatures and cartoons.Ballet -- France -- 19th century.Prints (Graphic arts) -- Ballet -- 19th century.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFB Ves Au C 2