Research Catalog

Title

Mlle. Louise Pierson, rôle de Cora dans Jocko [graphic] / Victor.

Author

Victor, Sextus Aurelius.

Publication

[1825?]

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Details

Additional Authors

Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. fnd

Description

1 print : lithograph, b&w; 28 x 23 cm., on mount 33 x 24 cm.

Summary

Portrayal of the French ballerina Louise Pierson in costume for the theatre work Jocko, ou le singe de Brésil (Jocko, or the monkey of Brazil). She wears a European version of Native American dress, trimmed with what appears to be fur and/or feathers. She carries a bow, with a quiver of arrows at her back, and a woven pouch is slung from her shoulder. Standing in a landscape with a banyan tree in the background, she addresses an unseen companion as she points towards the right of the picture.

Donor/Sponsor

Dance Committee Purchase Fund.

Subjects

• Jocko, the Brazilian ape (Choreographic work)
• Lithographs
• Pierson, Louise

Genre/Form

Lithographs.

Note

• Signed on stone.
• The artist's full name has not been identified.
• Lith. de Feillet.
• Caption title.
• Caption: Cachons nous-- sur ce tamarinier-- il ne me verra pas, et je continuerai ma chasse quand il sera ventré.

Indexed In (note)

• Chaffee, George, " Catalogue of the French souvenir lithographs (and varia) of the Romantic ballet," Dance index

Funding (note)

• Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography (note)

• Jocko, ou le singe de Brésil was a drama, or rather a "grand spectacle" mixed with music, dance, and pantomime, first performed at the Théâtre du Porte-Saint-Martin in Paris on March 16, 1825. Based on Charles de Pougens's novel Jocko (1824), it was written by Jules Joseph Gabriel du Lurieu (credited simply as M. Gabriel) and Claude Louis Marie de Rochefort-Luçay (credited as Edmond Rochefort). Its choreography was by Frédéric-August Blache, with music by Alexandre Piccinni and decor by Pierre-Charles-Luc Cicéri. The title role was played by Charles-François Mazurier, and Louise Pierson played the role of Cora, a young Brazilian slave belonging to the Portuguese trader Fernandez. In this production, Jocko was a capuchin monkey who rescues Fernandez's young son from a shipwreck. The theme of the heroic primate (which has been seen as a precursor of Edgar Rice Burroughs' tales of Tarzan and the apes) was much imitated, with versions by Jules Perrot (Sapajou, 1825), Filippo Taglioni (Danina, 1826), Jean Petipa (Jocko, 1826), and others. The character of Jocko became an ape rather than a monkey; while both are primates, monkeys are quadrupeds with tails, which are absent in apes, and cannot swing from trees as apes do.

Call Number

*MGZFX Vic Pie 1

OCLC

825066720

Author

Victor, Sextus Aurelius.

Title

Mlle. Louise Pierson, rôle de Cora dans Jocko [graphic] / Victor.

Imprint

[1825?]

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. 199, cat. no. 83.

Funding

Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography

Jocko, ou le singe de Brésil was a drama, or rather a "grand spectacle" mixed with music, dance, and pantomime, first performed at the Théâtre du Porte-Saint-Martin in Paris on March 16, 1825. Based on Charles de Pougens's novel Jocko (1824), it was written by Jules Joseph Gabriel du Lurieu (credited simply as M. Gabriel) and Claude Louis Marie de Rochefort-Luçay (credited as Edmond Rochefort). Its choreography was by Frédéric-August Blache, with music by Alexandre Piccinni and decor by Pierre-Charles-Luc Cicéri. The title role was played by Charles-François Mazurier, and Louise Pierson played the role of Cora, a young Brazilian slave belonging to the Portuguese trader Fernandez. In this production, Jocko was a capuchin monkey who rescues Fernandez's young son from a shipwreck. The theme of the heroic primate (which has been seen as a precursor of Edgar Rice Burroughs' tales of Tarzan and the apes) was much imitated, with versions by Jules Perrot (Sapajou, 1825), Filippo Taglioni (Danina, 1826), Jean Petipa (Jocko, 1826), and others. The character of Jocko became an ape rather than a monkey; while both are primates, monkeys are quadrupeds with tails, which are absent in apes, and cannot swing from trees as apes do.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Added Author

Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder

Research Call Number

*MGZFX Vic Pie 1