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Marie Taglioni

Title: Marie Taglioni [graphic] / M. Gauci lithog. ; printed by C. Hullmandel.
Author: Gauci, M.
Publication: [183-?]

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Description

1 print : lithograph, b&w; 22 x 16 cm., on mount 23 x 18 cm.

Summary

Half-length portrait of the ballerina Marie Taglioni.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portraits.
Lithographs.

Note

Facsimile signature at bottom.

Biography (note)

Marie Taglioni is the ballerina most closely identified with the Romantic ballet. Dancing the title role in her father Filippo Taglioni's ballet La sylphide (1832), she ushered in a new era in ballet, in which mortal men ventured into the mysterious realm of the supernatural, embodied by beautiful and desirable but elusive young women. She enjoyed the celebrity of a contemporary film star or rock idol, and was the subject of innumerable portraits by artists of her day.
This lithograph is a variant of a portrait by Pierre Roch Vigneron, made by Maxim or Massimo Gauci, 1774 or 1776-1854, a British printmaker who was born in Malta and settled in London in 1809. An image similar to Gauci's, attributed to John Pendleton, was published as a sheet music cover for La Taglioni waltz, arranged by W.H. Phipps.

Call Number

*MGZFB Tag M P 40

OCLC

790619382

Author

Gauci, M.

Title

Marie Taglioni [graphic] / M. Gauci lithog. ; printed by C. Hullmandel.

Imprint

[183-?]

Biography

Marie Taglioni is the ballerina most closely identified with the Romantic ballet. Dancing the title role in her father Filippo Taglioni's ballet La sylphide (1832), she ushered in a new era in ballet, in which mortal men ventured into the mysterious realm of the supernatural, embodied by beautiful and desirable but elusive young women. She enjoyed the celebrity of a contemporary film star or rock idol, and was the subject of innumerable portraits by artists of her day.

This lithograph is a variant of a portrait by Pierre Roch Vigneron, made by Maxim or Massimo Gauci, 1774 or 1776-1854, a British printmaker who was born in Malta and settled in London in 1809. An image similar to Gauci's, attributed to John Pendleton, was published as a sheet music cover for La Taglioni waltz, arranged by W.H. Phipps.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Library's copy has been trimmed.

For the portrait by Pierre Roch Vigneron, see: *MGZFB Tag M P 22.

For the sheet music cover attributed to John Pendleton, see: *MGZFB Tag M P 25.

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Added Author

Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850. Printer of plates

Vigneron, Pierre Roch, 1789-1872. Associated name

Research Call Number

*MGZFB Tag M P 40

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