Research Catalog

Title

[Pas grec] [graphic].

Publication

[184-?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Laprairie, Mlle.
• Leroux, Pauline, 1809-1891.
• Desmaisons, Emilien, 1812-1880.
• Guérard, Eugène Charles François, 1821-1866.

Description

1 print : lithograph, hand-colored; 31 x 25 cm.

Summary

Portrayal of a female ballet dancer in ethnic costume, performing a dance with castanets or finger cymbals in an outdoor setting, with a view of a house on a distant hill. She is poised in arabesque on pointe, her body facing left, although she turns her head to face front.

Subjects

• Ballet dancers > France > 19th century
• Lithographs

Genre/Form

Lithographs.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.

Indexed In (note)

• Chaffee, George, "Catalogue of the French souvenir lithographs (and varia) of the Romantic ballet," Dance index, vol. III, nos. 9-11, Sept.-Nov. 1944

Source (note)

• Lillian Moore.

Biography (note)

• This print is a reversal of the image of Mlle. Laprairie in the pas grec, lithographed by E. Desmaisons after Guérard, and published as no. 2 in Les Annales de l'Opéra; ou Recueil des premières danseuses, in Paris in 1844. There are differences in the drawing of the dancer's face, the foliage on either side, and the structure on the hill, which appears to be a ruined Greek temple in the Laprairie print. A note in an unknown hand on the verso of this print states that it probably represents the dancer Pauline Leroux rather than Mlle. Laprairie.

Call Number

*MGZFB Pas 1

OCLC

783527446

Title

[Pas grec] [graphic].

Imprint

[184-?]

Indexed In:

Mlle. Laprairie, Chaffee, George, "Catalogue of the French souvenir lithographs (and varia) of the Romantic ballet," Dance index, vol. III, nos. 9-11, Sept.-Nov. 1944, p. 209, cat. no. 552.

Biography

This print is a reversal of the image of Mlle. Laprairie in the pas grec, lithographed by E. Desmaisons after Guérard, and published as no. 2 in Les Annales de l'Opéra; ou Recueil des premières danseuses, in Paris in 1844. There are differences in the drawing of the dancer's face, the foliage on either side, and the structure on the hill, which appears to be a ruined Greek temple in the Laprairie print. A note in an unknown hand on the verso of this print states that it probably represents the dancer Pauline Leroux rather than Mlle. Laprairie.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

For the lithograph of Mlle. Laprairie in the pas grec, see: *MGZFB Lap U 1.

Library's copy of the print appears to be signed at bottom, but the word(s) are too faint to read.

Source

Gift; Lillian Moore.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Laprairie, Mlle. Associated name

Leroux, Pauline, 1809-1891. Associated name

Desmaisons, Emilien, 1812-1880. Associated name

Guérard, Eugène Charles François, 1821-1866. Associated name

Moore, Lillian. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZFB Pas 1