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Juvenile fancy ball, Paris
- Title
- Juvenile fancy ball, Paris [graphic] / Eugene Lami ; Chas. Rolls.
- Author
- Rolls, Charles, 1800-
- Publication
- London : Fisher, Son & Co. ; Paris : H. Mandeville, [183-? or later]
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- Additional Authors
- Lami, Eugène Louis, 1800-1890.
- Description
- 1 print : engraving, hand-colored; 21 x 28 cm., plate mark 17 x 26 cm.
- Summary
- Depiction of a party in a private home, attended by both adults and children, some of whom wear fancy-dress costumes. The couple at center, the woman in an Italian headdress and the man in eighteenth-century costume, may be dancing.
- Alternative Title
- Bal d'enfants
- Kinder Maskenball
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Engravings.
- Note
- Caption title.
- At lower left: Bal d'enfants.
- At lower right: Kinder Maskenball.
- Biography (note)
- The French painter and lithographer Eugène Lami frequently made illustrations of nineteenth-century Parisian life and society, of which this may be one. He is probably best remembered in the dance world as the costume designer for Filippo Taglioni's groundbreaking ballet La sylphide (1832), in which Marie Taglioni, in the title role, wore the long white bell-shaped tutu that became the uniform of the Romantic ballet.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Rol C Juv 1
- OCLC
- 825553188
- Author
- Rolls, Charles, 1800- Engraver
- Title
- Juvenile fancy ball, Paris [graphic] / Eugene Lami ; Chas. Rolls.
- Imprint
- London : Fisher, Son & Co. ; Paris : H. Mandeville, [183-? or later]
- Biography
- The French painter and lithographer Eugène Lami frequently made illustrations of nineteenth-century Parisian life and society, of which this may be one. He is probably best remembered in the dance world as the costume designer for Filippo Taglioni's groundbreaking ballet La sylphide (1832), in which Marie Taglioni, in the title role, wore the long white bell-shaped tutu that became the uniform of the Romantic ballet.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
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- Added Author
- Lami, Eugène Louis, 1800-1890. Artist
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Rol C Juv 1