Research Catalog

Title

Melle. Pauline Leroux et Mr. Elie, dans la scène de séduction (3eme acte) du Diable amoreux (Ballet) [graphic] / M. Alophe.

Author

Alophe, 1812-1883.

Publication

[Paris] : Challamel, [184-?]

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Details

Additional Authors

Challamel, Augustin, 1818-1894.

Description

1 print : lithograph, hand-colored; 27 x 20 cm.

Summary

In this representation of a moment from Act III, scene 1 of Joseph Mazilier's ballet Le diable amoureux, the ballerina Pauline Leroux, in the role of the female demon Urielle, appears in the costume of a bayadère or Indian temple dancer in order to seduce the Grand Vizier, played by Georges Elie.

Series Statement

Album de l'Opéra ; no. 6

Subjects

• Lithographs
• Élie, Georges, 1800-1883
• Leroux, Pauline, 1809-1891
• Diable amoureux (Choreographic work : Mazilier)
• Opéra de Paris > Ballet

Genre/Form

Lithographs.

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

Biography (note)

• Le diable amoureux, also known as The devil in love (choreography, Joseph Mazilier; music, François Benoist and Henri Reber; scenario, Jules Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Mazilier) was first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1840. The role of Urielle, created as a vehicle for Pauline Leroux, was a benevolent figure despite her infernal origins, and assisted the lovers Frédéric and Lilia. In the course of the ballet Urielle dons the disguises of a male page as well as a bride and a bayadère. This print probably depicts the pas de fascination, a high point of the ballet, in which she entices the Grand Vizier into purchasing her as a slave.
• This is a colored version of a lithograph published as a plate in the Album de l'Opéra, edited and published by Augustin Challamel in Paris, ca. 1845. Like most of the other plates in the book, it accompanied an essay on the ballet it depicted.

Call Number

*MGZFB Ler P Dia 6

OCLC

790619428

Author

Alophe, 1812-1883.

Title

Melle. Pauline Leroux et Mr. Elie, dans la scène de séduction (3eme acte) du Diable amoreux (Ballet) [graphic] / M. Alophe.

Imprint

[Paris] : Challamel, [184-?]

Series

Album de l'Opéra ; no. 6

Indexed In:

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. 208, cat. no. 529.

Biography

Le diable amoureux, also known as The devil in love (choreography, Joseph Mazilier; music, François Benoist and Henri Reber; scenario, Jules Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Mazilier) was first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1840. The role of Urielle, created as a vehicle for Pauline Leroux, was a benevolent figure despite her infernal origins, and assisted the lovers Frédéric and Lilia. In the course of the ballet Urielle dons the disguises of a male page as well as a bride and a bayadère. This print probably depicts the pas de fascination, a high point of the ballet, in which she entices the Grand Vizier into purchasing her as a slave.

This is a colored version of a lithograph published as a plate in the Album de l'Opéra, edited and published by Augustin Challamel in Paris, ca. 1845. Like most of the other plates in the book, it accompanied an essay on the ballet it depicted.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

For an uncolored version of this print, see: *MGZFB Ler P Dia 3.

For an uncolored version of this print, published as part of the Album de l'Opéra, see: *MGTY-Res. Challamel, Jean Baptiste Marie Augustin, ed., Album de l'Opéra, Paris, [1845?], plate 6.

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Added Author

Challamel, Augustin, 1818-1894. Publisher

Research Call Number

*MGZFB Ler P Dia 6