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Partie de la masquerade. Die Lust sich zuverkleiden
- Title
- Partie de la masquerade. Die Lust sich zuverkleiden [graphic] / J.E. Nilson, inv. sculps. et excud. A.V.
- Author
- Nilson, Johann Esaias, 1721-1788.
- Publication
- [173-? or later]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *MGZFD Nil J Par 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *MGZFD Nil J Par 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 print : engraving, b&w; 31 x 22 cm., plate mark 28 x 19 cm.
- Summary
- Two vignettes on one sheet. At top within a circular frame, a woman and man, both holding masks, cast fond glances at each another. Various figures surround them outside the frame; among them are a man in a peaked hat, partly concealed by shadows; a masked dwarf; a man with an agitated child; and a masked woman in peasant dress, who reaches towards a bottle. The image below depicts a woman and man who seem to be wearing fancy dress; her skirt, adorned with stars and an owl with outspread wings, reaches only to her calves, and the man's knee-breeches are decorated with the astrological symbols for Cancer and Capricorn. The woman wears what appears to be a crescent moon atop her head; the man wears a rayed sun. Neither, however, is masked. The man's right leg is raised in a dancing or running position.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Engravings.
- Source (note)
- Lillian Moore.
- Biography (note)
- Johann Esaias Nilson, who was born and died in Augsburg, was a German miniature painter, draughtsman, engraver, and print publisher. Trained in part by his parents, who were also miniature painters, he worked as a court painter, producing portraits of the nobility. He founded a printing house in 1751 and published the designs and engravings of other artists, as well as his own.
- Call Number
- *MGZFD Nil J Par 1
- OCLC
- 771303673
- Author
- Nilson, Johann Esaias, 1721-1788.
- Title
- Partie de la masquerade. Die Lust sich zuverkleiden [graphic] / J.E. Nilson, inv. sculps. et excud. A.V.
- Imprint
- [173-? or later]
- Biography
- Johann Esaias Nilson, who was born and died in Augsburg, was a German miniature painter, draughtsman, engraver, and print publisher. Trained in part by his parents, who were also miniature painters, he worked as a court painter, producing portraits of the nobility. He founded a printing house in 1751 and published the designs and engravings of other artists, as well as his own.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.This item may be offsite for digitization. For additional information please contact dance@nypl.org.
- Source
- Gift; Lillian Moore.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Moore, Lillian. Donor
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFD Nil J Par 1