Research Catalog

Title

Coote's Esmeralda quadrilles [graphic] : from the grand ballet as performed at Her Majesty's Theatre / composed by Cesare Pugni ; [illustration signed on stone] J. Brandard.

Author

Brandard, John, 1812-1863.

Publication

London : Chappell, [1845? or later]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

1 print : lithograph, b&w; 35 x 26 cm. +

Summary

Sheet music cover illustration. At the center of a flower-bedecked pavilion, a man leaps in the ballet movement called a pas de poisson. In his left hand he holds a flower similar to that held by the woman at left. Other women and a second man encircle him, watching.

Alternative Title

Esmeralda quadrilles

Subjects

• Frassi, Adelaide
• Saint-Léon, Arthur, 1821-1870
• Sheet music covers
• Grisi, Carlotta, 1819-1899
• Lithographs
• Esmeralda (Choreographic work : Perrot)

Genre/Form

• Sheet music covers.
• Lithographs.

Note

• Caption title.
• Pl. no. : 6894.
• M & N Hanhart, Lith. Printers.

Indexed In (note)

• Chaffee, George, "The Romantic ballet in London: 1821-1858; some hitherto unremarked aspects," Dance index

Source (note)

• Lillian Moore.

Biography (note)

• Jules Perrot's ballet La Esmeralda (music, Cesare Pugni) was loosely based on Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris. First performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1844, it featured Carlotta Grisi in the title role of the Gypsy girl Esmeralda, with Perrot himself as the poet Pierre Gringoire. This print depicts a moment from Act II, scene 2 of the ballet. Phoebus de Chateaupers (played by Arthur Saint-Léon) dances for his fiancée Fleur-de-Lys (Adelaide Frassi, depicted at left) and her companions in the gardens of her family's mansion. Esmeralda, holding her tambourine, has come to entertain the guests, accompanied by Pierre Gringoire (the shadowy figure behind Fleur-de-Lys); she too is in love with Phoebus, who had previously rescued her from the ballet's villain, Claude Frollo.
• This image by John Brandard appeared in several incarnations, among them a hand-colored souvenir print published ca. 1845, intended for purchase and display by admirers of the ballet. An uncolored version published as a music cover for Chas. W. Glover's Esmeralda quadrilles is described by George Chaffee (see reference above). As the online catalog of the Victoria & Albert Museum points out, this print is unusual in its focus on a male dancer rather than the ballerinas who dominated the Romantic ballet.

Call Number

*MGZFX Bra J Esm 1

OCLC

825120743

Author

Brandard, John, 1812-1863.

Title

Coote's Esmeralda quadrilles [graphic] : from the grand ballet as performed at Her Majesty's Theatre / composed by Cesare Pugni ; [illustration signed on stone] J. Brandard.

Imprint

London : Chappell, [1845? or later]

Indexed In:

Same image, published as a music cover for Chas. W. Glover's Esmeralda quadrilles Chaffee, George, "The Romantic ballet in London: 1821-1858; some hitherto unremarked aspects," Dance index, vol. II, nos. 9-12, Sept.-Dec. 1943, p. 122, 180; plate II; cat. no. 59.

Biography

Jules Perrot's ballet La Esmeralda (music, Cesare Pugni) was loosely based on Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris. First performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1844, it featured Carlotta Grisi in the title role of the Gypsy girl Esmeralda, with Perrot himself as the poet Pierre Gringoire. This print depicts a moment from Act II, scene 2 of the ballet. Phoebus de Chateaupers (played by Arthur Saint-Léon) dances for his fiancée Fleur-de-Lys (Adelaide Frassi, depicted at left) and her companions in the gardens of her family's mansion. Esmeralda, holding her tambourine, has come to entertain the guests, accompanied by Pierre Gringoire (the shadowy figure behind Fleur-de-Lys); she too is in love with Phoebus, who had previously rescued her from the ballet's villain, Claude Frollo.

This image by John Brandard appeared in several incarnations, among them a hand-colored souvenir print published ca. 1845, intended for purchase and display by admirers of the ballet. An uncolored version published as a music cover for Chas. W. Glover's Esmeralda quadrilles is described by George Chaffee (see reference above). As the online catalog of the Victoria & Albert Museum points out, this print is unusual in its focus on a male dancer rather than the ballerinas who dominated the Romantic ballet.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Library's copy of the music score is incomplete; only p. 7 remains.

Source

Gift; Lillian Moore.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Moore, Lillian. Donor

Publisher No.

6894 : Chappell

Research Call Number

*MGZFX Bra J Esm 1