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Regina Monti
- Title
- Regina Monti [graphic].
- Publication
- [1763-1764]
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- Additional Authors
- Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780.
- Description
- 2 prints : engraving, b&w; 36 x 26 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- Two portraits of the dancer Regina Monti. The three-quarter-length portrait engraved by Jacobus Houbraken depicts her at a window, facing front with her body turned towards the left. At bottom is an eight-line poem in Dutch, initialed G.B., which mentions not only the dancer's name, Monti, but that of the artist Xavery. A half-length portrait appears to reverse the same image, so that her body is turned to the right.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Portraits.
- Biography (note)
- Regina Monti, who may also have used the last name Nieri, is listed as a prima ballerina on Italian opera libretti from ca. 1771-1780. According to Marian Hannah Winter's The Pre-Romantic ballet (1975), she came from a "largish" dancing family surnamed Monti. From the evidence of these prints, she spent some time in the 1760s dancing in Amsterdam.
- Jacobus Houbraken was a Dutch engraver and etcher who specialized in portraits.
- Contents
- Pictura, die, in 't choor der eedte Zanggodinnen ... / I. Xavery pinx., J[acobus] Houbraken sculps. 1763 -- Jufr. Nieri, geboren Monti, eerste Dansscheresse op de Amsterdamsche Schouwburg 1764.
- Call Number
- *MGZFB Mon R P 1-2
- OCLC
- 782069776
- Title
- Regina Monti [graphic].
- Imprint
- [1763-1764]
- Biography
- Regina Monti, who may also have used the last name Nieri, is listed as a prima ballerina on Italian opera libretti from ca. 1771-1780. According to Marian Hannah Winter's The Pre-Romantic ballet (1975), she came from a "largish" dancing family surnamed Monti. From the evidence of these prints, she spent some time in the 1760s dancing in Amsterdam.Jacobus Houbraken was a Dutch engraver and etcher who specialized in portraits.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Added Author
- Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780. Artist
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFB Mon R P 1-2