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Ombre heureuse dans l'opera de Castor et Pollux

Title: Ombre heureuse dans l'opera de Castor et Pollux [graphic].
Publication: [182-?]

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Description

1 drawing : ink, watercolor, color; 32 x 20 cm.

Summary

Costume for a male performer playing a Blessed Spirit in the opera Castor et Pollux. Dressed entirely in white, he wears a tonnelet (short hoopskirt) festooned with ribbons and bows, a plumed headdress, and breeches and stockings with bows at the knees.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Costume design drawings.

Note

Caption title.
Captioned: Acad[em]ie R[oya]le de Musique. Année 1764.
Penciled on the verso: No. 79.

Source (note)

Lillian Moore.

Biography (note)

Jean-Philippe Rameau's "tragédie en musique" Castor et Pollux, with a libretto by Pierre-Joseph Bernard, was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1737. Though it was at first coolly received, a substantially revised version was successfully staged in 1754, and the opera was again revived in 1764, the date on this drawing. The opera's plot derives from the ancient Greek myth of the twins Castor and Pollux, who are respectively mortal and immortal. The Blessed Spirits, inhabitants of the Elysian Fields, attempt to console Castor when he finds himself there after his slaying.
The Bibliothèque Nationale of France holds a lithograph of this image by François-Séraphin Delpech, 1778-1825, bearing the same information as the captions on this drawing. This drawing is stylistically similar in image and lettering to uncredited drawings of Emilie Bigottini as Victor in Les pages du duc de Vendome (presented in Paris in 1820) and Catherine Biancolelli as Columbine, captioned Année 1730. The image of Bigottini also appeared as a lithograph by Delpech.

Call Number

*MGZGD Anon Omb 1

OCLC

824566327

Title

Ombre heureuse dans l'opera de Castor et Pollux [graphic].

Imprint

[182-?]

Biography

Jean-Philippe Rameau's "tragédie en musique" Castor et Pollux, with a libretto by Pierre-Joseph Bernard, was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1737. Though it was at first coolly received, a substantially revised version was successfully staged in 1754, and the opera was again revived in 1764, the date on this drawing. The opera's plot derives from the ancient Greek myth of the twins Castor and Pollux, who are respectively mortal and immortal. The Blessed Spirits, inhabitants of the Elysian Fields, attempt to console Castor when he finds himself there after his slaying.

The Bibliothèque Nationale of France holds a lithograph of this image by François-Séraphin Delpech, 1778-1825, bearing the same information as the captions on this drawing. This drawing is stylistically similar in image and lettering to uncredited drawings of Emilie Bigottini as Victor in Les pages du duc de Vendome (presented in Paris in 1820) and Catherine Biancolelli as Columbine, captioned Année 1730. The image of Bigottini also appeared as a lithograph by Delpech.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

For the drawing of Emilie Bigottini as Victor in Les pages du duc de Vendome, see: *MGZGA Anon Big 2.

For the drawing titled Catherine Biancollelli dans le role de Colomline [i.e., Colombine], see: *MGZGD Anon Bia 1.

Source

Gift; Lillian Moore.

Added Author

Moore, Lillian. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZGD Anon Omb 1

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