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Melle Cochois dansant devant ses soeurs (Château de Potsdam)

Title
Melle Cochois dansant devant ses soeurs (Château de Potsdam) [graphic] / Antoine Pesne pinx. ; E. Abot sc.
Author
Abot, Eugène-Michel-Joseph, 1836-1894.
Publication
[1750?]

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Additional Authors
Pesne, Antoine, 1683-1757.
Description
1 photomechanical? print : b&w; 17 x 23 cm.
Summary
Reproductive print after an oil painting by Antoine Pesne, depicting the dancer Marianne Cochois performing in a sylvan landscape. A musician playing a drum and wind instrument accompanies her at left; a group of ladies and gentlemen are seated at right, with others in the background. One man holds a sheet of music; a guitar lies at his feet.
Uniform Title
Gazette des beaux-arts.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Reproductive prints.
Note
  • Caption title.
  • Imp. Chardon-Wittmann.
  • At lower left: Gazette des Beaux-Arts.
  • Pencilled at right: 1907.
Biography (note)
  • The original oil painting by Antoine Pesne is held at Schloss Charlottenburg, Potsdam, Germany.
  • Marianne Cochois, the younger sister of the actress Babette Cochois, is said to have danced at the Berlin Opera beginning in 1742.
  • The French-born painter Antoine Pesne became the official painter to two kings of Prussia, Frederick William I and his son Frederick William II, known as Frederick the Great. His works included many portraits as well as the decoration of the royal palaces.
  • Eugène Abot was a French printmaker and illustrator. He contributed reproductive prints and his own etchings to journals such as L'Art and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts.
Call Number
*MGZFX Abo E Coc 1
OCLC
825562153
Author
Abot, Eugène-Michel-Joseph, 1836-1894. Engraver
Title
Melle Cochois dansant devant ses soeurs (Château de Potsdam) [graphic] / Antoine Pesne pinx. ; E. Abot sc.
Imprint
[1750?] 1907.
Biography
The original oil painting by Antoine Pesne is held at Schloss Charlottenburg, Potsdam, Germany.
Marianne Cochois, the younger sister of the actress Babette Cochois, is said to have danced at the Berlin Opera beginning in 1742.
The French-born painter Antoine Pesne became the official painter to two kings of Prussia, Frederick William I and his son Frederick William II, known as Frederick the Great. His works included many portraits as well as the decoration of the royal palaces.
Eugène Abot was a French printmaker and illustrator. He contributed reproductive prints and his own etchings to journals such as L'Art and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts.
Local Note
Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
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Added Author
Pesne, Antoine, 1683-1757. Artist
Added Title
Gazette des beaux-arts.
Research Call Number
*MGZFX Abo E Coc 1
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