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Madme Viganò
- Title
- Madme Viganò [graphic].
- Author
- Clarot, Joseph, 1770-1820.
- Publication
- [Vienna : Artaria, 179-?]
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- Description
- 1 print : aquatint?, b&w; 55 x 42 cm.
- Summary
- Portrait of the dancer Maria Medina Viganò in action, engraved by Joseph Clarot after a painting by Peter Eduard Ströhling.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Dance Committee Purchase Fund.
- Alternative Title
- Madame Viganò
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Etchings.
- Indexed In (note)
- Binney, Edwin, "A century of Austro-German dance prints, 1790-1890," in Dance perspectives
- Funding (note)
- Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Biography (note)
- The Spanish-born dancer Maria Medina married Salvatore Viganò, an Italian choreographer, in the 1780s, and danced with him in many of his ballets. The couple performed in Vienna from 1793 to 1814, at a time when the German painter Peter Eduard Ströhling was also in the city. Ströhling, whose last name has many variants including Stroely or Straely, was known for his portraits and figure subjects. Six of his portraits are held by the Royal Collection in London, where he died ca. 1826.
- Call Number
- *MGZFF Vig M U 2
- OCLC
- 759167921
- Author
- Clarot, Joseph, 1770-1820. Engraver
- Title
- Madme Viganò [graphic].
- Imprint
- [Vienna : Artaria, 179-?]
- Indexed In:
- Binney, Edwin, "A century of Austro-German dance prints, 1790-1890," in Dance perspectives, 47, autumn 1971, p. 7, 69; cat. no. 267.
- Biography
- The Spanish-born dancer Maria Medina married Salvatore Viganò, an Italian choreographer, in the 1780s, and danced with him in many of his ballets. The couple performed in Vienna from 1793 to 1814, at a time when the German painter Peter Eduard Ströhling was also in the city. Ströhling, whose last name has many variants including Stroely or Straely, was known for his portraits and figure subjects. Six of his portraits are held by the Royal Collection in London, where he died ca. 1826.
- Local Note
- Library's copy is mounted on cardboard and lacks captions. Parts of the print have been retouched with ink.Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Funding
- Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Local Note
- This item may be offsite for digitization. For additional information please contact dance@nypl.org.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Ströhling, Peter Eduard, 1768-approximately 1826. ArtistCommittee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFF Vig M U 2