TitleLe bouquet de perles: Valses brillantes
NamesHullmandel & Walton (Lithographer)
CollectionPrints depicting dance
Ballet or dance scenes from theatrical works, with or without people in them
La péri on music covers
Dates / OriginDate Issued: 1843 - 1900 (Questionable)
Library locationsJerome Robbins Dance DivisionShelf locator: *MGZFA-19 Peri 1
TopicsPéri (Choreographic work : Coralli)Elssler, Fanny, 1810-1884Taglioni, Marie, 1804-1884Cerrito, FannyGrisi, Carlotta, 1819-1899Grahn, Lucile, 1819-1907
GenresPrintsSheet music covers
NotesStatement of responsibility: Hullmandel & Walton lith.Biographical/historical: La péri (choreography, Jean Coralli; music, Friedrich Burgmüller; scenario, Théophile Gautier and Coralli) was first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1843. Purportedly set in Egypt, it depicted an Orientalist dream world where a peri, a type of fairy with roots in Zoroastrianism, takes over the body of a murdered slave girl in order to achieve union with her mortal lover. A high point of the ballet was the Act I pas de songe, in which the Peri (danced by Carlotta Grisi) leapt from a platform representing the celestial realm into the waiting arms of her lover Achmet (danced by Lucien Petipa). The music cover for Le bouquet de perles "borrows" the image of this leap from a lithograph by Alophe, published in Le Ménestrel.Content: Fanny Elssler, Marie Taglioni, Fanny Cerrito, Carlotta Grisi, Lucie [sic] Grahn
Physical DescriptionLithographsExtent: 1 print : lithograph, black & white, 34 x 26 cm. or smaller.
DescriptionIllustration from a sheet music cover intended for home performance. Although it depicts a scene from Jean Coralli's ballet La péri, the image has been put to the service of another musical composition without identifying the ballet.
Type of ResourceStill imageText
LanguagesFrench
IdentifiersRLIN/OCLC: 768198261NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19432969Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): afba8b00-4369-013c-c1f0-0242ac110002
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