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Le bal des nations
- Title
- Le bal des nations [graphic].
- Publication
- [171-? 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 Anon Nat 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 Anon Nat 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 print : etching, aquatint, engraving, one col.; plate mark 16 x 27 cm., line border 13 x 24 cm.
- Summary
- Design for a fan, possibly a reproduction from a book. Wearing the costumes of various nations, a group of women and a few men (including a mustached man at center in travesty, wearing an ankle-length skirt) gathers on a terrace flanked by vine-circled columns; a few refreshments are set out at right. In French verses various countries have their say, beginning with La France and going on to L'Espagne, La Sardagne, L'Italie, L'Allemagne, La Saxe, La Russie, La Pologne, La Turquie, La Hollande, and L'Angleterre. The music to which the verses are sung is indicated at left by the note "sur l'air du bel âges," and musical notation on the risers of the steps. The word "bal" in the title may be metaphorical rather than literal, although the three central figures (the man in travesty and the two women flanking him) seem to interact in dance-like positions.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Etchings.
- Indexed In (note)
- Rhead, G. Woolliscroft, History of the fan, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1910
- Biography (note)
- In his History of the fan, G. Woolliscroft Rhead describes Le bal des nations as an example of an engraved fan with a topical subject, here the declaration of war against Emperor Charles VI. Other fans of this kind were made in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Call Number
- *MGZFD Anon Nat 1
- OCLC
- 771466291
- Title
- Le bal des nations [graphic].
- Imprint
- [171-? or later]
- Indexed In:
- Rhead, G. Woolliscroft, History of the fan, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1910, p. 210.
- Biography
- In his History of the fan, G. Woolliscroft Rhead describes Le bal des nations as an example of an engraved fan with a topical subject, here the declaration of war against Emperor Charles VI. Other fans of this kind were made in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- 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.
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- Research Call Number
- *MGZFD Anon Nat 1