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Femme espagnole dansant la quarache, dans la Muette de Portici. Opéra, Académie Royale de Musique. Ballet du premier acte

Title
Femme espagnole dansant la quarache, dans la Muette de Portici. Opéra, Académie Royale de Musique. Ballet du premier acte [graphic] / Maleuvre s[culpsit].
Author
Maleuvre, active 1823-1837.
Publication
Paris : chez Hautecoeur Martinet Libraire, [1828? or later]

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Maison Martinet (Paris, France) pbl
Description
1 print : engraving, hand-colored; 24 x 15 cm., plate mark 19 x 12 cm.
Summary
Depiction of a female dancer in Spanish costume, performing the quarache (also called the guaracha) in the first act of the opera La muette de Portici.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Engravings.
Note
  • Caption title.
  • At upper right: No. 618.
Indexed In (note)
  • Chaffee, George, "Catalogue of the French souvenir lithographs (and varia) of the Romantic ballet," Dance index, vol. 3, nos. 9-11, Sept.-Nov. 1944
Source (note)
  • Lincoln Kirstein.
Biography (note)
  • La muette de Portici, an opera with music by Daniel Auber and divertissements by Filippo Taglioni, was first presented at the Académie Royale de Musique [Paris Opéra] in 1828.
  • This print was published as part of the series Petite galerie dramatique.
  • The printing and publishing house of Maison Martinet was founded in 1796 by Aaron Martinet, 1762-1841, who became well-known for publishing satirical prints. In 1822 the firm assumed the name Hautecoeur-Martinet, after Martinet's son-in-law Hermenégilde Hautecoeur, who became its head after Martinet's retirement in 1824.
Call Number
*MGZFB Muet 1
OCLC
782069746
Author
Maleuvre, active 1823-1837.
Title
Femme espagnole dansant la quarache, dans la Muette de Portici. Opéra, Académie Royale de Musique. Ballet du premier acte [graphic] / Maleuvre s[culpsit].
Imprint
Paris : chez Hautecoeur Martinet Libraire, [1828? or later]
Indexed In:
Chaffee, George, "Catalogue of the French souvenir lithographs (and varia) of the Romantic ballet," Dance index, vol. 3, nos. 9-11, Sept.-Nov. 1944, p. 203, (A-i) Petite galerie dramatique, no. 618, Femme espagnole.
Biography
La muette de Portici, an opera with music by Daniel Auber and divertissements by Filippo Taglioni, was first presented at the Académie Royale de Musique [Paris Opéra] in 1828.
This print was published as part of the series Petite galerie dramatique.
The printing and publishing house of Maison Martinet was founded in 1796 by Aaron Martinet, 1762-1841, who became well-known for publishing satirical prints. In 1822 the firm assumed the name Hautecoeur-Martinet, after Martinet's son-in-law Hermenégilde Hautecoeur, who became its head after Martinet's retirement in 1824.
Local Note
Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
For another copy of this print, trimmed and with slightly different coloration, see: *MGZFX The 3.
Source
Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.
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Local Subject
Guaracha (Dance)
Spanish dancing.
Added Author
Maison Martinet (Paris, France) Publisher
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Donor
Research Call Number
*MGZFB Muet 1
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