Research Catalog

Title

Les coulisses de l'Opéra (le corps de ingénues) [graphic] / peint par Gavarni ; lith. par Regnier et Bettannier.

Author

Bettannier, Joseph.

Publication

Paris, Berlin, Barcelona : Hulla Frères et Jouy ; London : E. Gambart, [186-?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
• Régnier, Claude, active 19th century.
• Imprimerie Lemercier et cie. ltg

Description

1 print : lithograph, color; 51 x 68 cm.

Summary

Depiction of a backstage scene at an opera house, possibly the Paris Opéra. Behind a flat, female members of the corps de ballet line up on a platform, preparing for their entrance. A few flirt with male admirers. Theatrical props, including ewers, spears, and wreaths, are piled in the foreground. Their suggestion of a Roman theme is echoed by the weapons, banner, and helmet visible amid the crowd at left. Audience members in a box and in the balcony appear above the top of the flat.

Alternative Title

• Opera slips (a body of young maido [sic])
• Coulissen des Opernhauses (die Schaar der Unschuld)
• Musée de moeurs en actions

Subjects

• Lithographs
• Ballet > France > 19th century

Genre/Form

Lithographs.

Note

• Caption title.
• At head of print: Musée de moeurs en actions.
• Imp. par Lemercier à Paris.

Indexed In (note)

• Chaffee, George, "Three or four graces: a centenary salvo," [including] "Catalogue of the French souvenir lithographs (and varia) of the Romantic ballet," Dance index

Biography (note)

• The French lithographer and painter Paul Gavarni, a contemporary of Honoré Daumier, was also known for his unsparing satirical depictions of contemporary life.

Call Number

*MGZFY Bet J Cou 1

OCLC

825067500

Author

Bettannier, Joseph. Lithographer

Title

Les coulisses de l'Opéra (le corps de ingénues) [graphic] / peint par Gavarni ; lith. par Regnier et Bettannier.

Imprint

Paris, Berlin, Barcelona : Hulla Frères et Jouy ; London : E. Gambart, [186-?]

Indexed In:

Chaffee, George, "Three or four graces: a centenary salvo," [including] "Catalogue of the French souvenir lithographs (and varia) of the Romantic ballet," Dance index, vol. III, nos. 9-11, Sept.-Nov. 1944, p. 157, 201; plate XV, cat. no. 117.

Biography

The French lithographer and painter Paul Gavarni, a contemporary of Honoré Daumier, was also known for his unsparing satirical depictions of contemporary life.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Added Author

Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866. Artist

Régnier, Claude, active 19th century. Lithographer

Imprimerie Lemercier et cie. Lithographer

Added Title

Musée de moeurs en actions

Research Call Number

*MGZFY Bet J Cou 1