Research Catalog

Title

Propos de coulisses [selections] [graphic] / Stop.

Author

Morel-Retz, Louis Pierre Gabriel Bernard, 1825-1899.

Publication

[187-? or later]

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Details

Description

4 prints : lithograph, b&w; 29 x 24 cm., on mount 39 x 28 cm.

Summary

Cartoons from an unidentified periodical. As the series title indicates, the cartoons focus on activities in the wings or behind the scenes. Three depict the interactions of female dancers and their male patrons; in the fourth print, the man involved is the costume designer (or so he claims). Each print is captioned with a brief dialogue between its subjects.

Subjects

• Lithographs
• Ballet dancers > France > 19th century > Caricatures and cartoons
• Cartoons (Commentary)

Genre/Form

• Cartoons (Commentary)
• Lithographs.

Note

• Signed on stone.
• Series caption title.
• At lower left of each print: A. de Vresse [publisher?].
• At lower right of each print: Lith. Destouches.

Biography (note)

• The nineteenth-century was titillated by the interactions between female dancers, variously known as ballet girls or opera dancers, and their male patrons, who were usually wealthier, older, and of a higher social class. Edgar Degas's images of the ballet often included the shadowy figures of these men, clad in their black evening clothes and opera hats. Dancers and their patrons became a favorite subject of caricaturists, possibly because of the opportunities they offered for commentary (sometimes savage) on contemporary mores.
• Louis Pierre Gabriel Bernard Morel-Retz, a French painter, watercolorist, and etcher, was probably best-known for his caricatures, which he produced under the pseudonym Stop. His caricatures were published in French satirical periodicals such as the Journal amusant and Le Charivari, possible sources of the cartoons in this collection.

Call Number

*MGZFX Mor L Pro 1-4

OCLC

825122190

Author

Morel-Retz, Louis Pierre Gabriel Bernard, 1825-1899.

Title

Propos de coulisses [selections] [graphic] / Stop.

Imprint

[187-? or later]

Biography

The nineteenth-century was titillated by the interactions between female dancers, variously known as ballet girls or opera dancers, and their male patrons, who were usually wealthier, older, and of a higher social class. Edgar Degas's images of the ballet often included the shadowy figures of these men, clad in their black evening clothes and opera hats. Dancers and their patrons became a favorite subject of caricaturists, possibly because of the opportunities they offered for commentary (sometimes savage) on contemporary mores.

Louis Pierre Gabriel Bernard Morel-Retz, a French painter, watercolorist, and etcher, was probably best-known for his caricatures, which he produced under the pseudonym Stop. His caricatures were published in French satirical periodicals such as the Journal amusant and Le Charivari, possible sources of the cartoons in this collection.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Library's copies have been trimmed and affixed to mounts.

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Research Call Number

*MGZFX Mor L Pro 1-4