Research Catalog
[Mlle. Camargo]
- Title
- [Mlle. Camargo] [graphic].
- Publication
- [179-? or later]
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- Additional Authors
- Lancret, Nicolas, 1690-1743.
- Description
- 1 print : engraving, b&w; 41 x 49 cm.
- Summary
- Depiction of the French ballerina Marie Camargo dancing in a sylvan landscape. A musician stands at her right; four more musicians are ranged on lower ground at her left. Camargo is poised on her right foot, with her left foot slightly elevated; her gaze is directed to her left. She wears the shortened skirts that she introduced to display the brilliance of her footwork.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Portraits.
- Etchings.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Biography (note)
- Although the printmaker has not been identified, this image closely follows Nicolas Lancret's oil painting, dated 1730, in the Wallace Collection, London, which is thought to be the earliest of Lancret's portrayals of Camargo. This painting was reproduced in different versions by several printmakers, among them Laurent Cars, who reversed the image so that Camargo gazes towards her right. This print eliminates two onlookers seen in the painting, and compresses the four musicians into a more compact group. The pillar and urn behind the lone musician have been brought completely into the picture and enlarged; the treatment of the trees in the background is different; and this print has added at far right a view of a distant cityscape against a mountain.
- Call Number
- *MGZFY Anon Cam 1
- OCLC
- 825069678
- Title
- [Mlle. Camargo] [graphic].
- Imprint
- [179-? or later]
- Biography
- Although the printmaker has not been identified, this image closely follows Nicolas Lancret's oil painting, dated 1730, in the Wallace Collection, London, which is thought to be the earliest of Lancret's portrayals of Camargo. This painting was reproduced in different versions by several printmakers, among them Laurent Cars, who reversed the image so that Camargo gazes towards her right. This print eliminates two onlookers seen in the painting, and compresses the four musicians into a more compact group. The pillar and urn behind the lone musician have been brought completely into the picture and enlarged; the treatment of the trees in the background is different; and this print has added at far right a view of a distant cityscape against a mountain.
- Local Note
- For Laurent Cars's engraving, which reverses this image, see: *MGZFF Cam M U 1. This image is also reproduced in: *MGTI New York Public Library. Dance Collection. Images of the dance, 1965, cat. no. 15, p. 18.Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
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- Added Author
- Lancret, Nicolas, 1690-1743. Artist
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFY Anon Cam 1