Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. Drypoint; plate mark: 19 x 25 cm.

Subject

1. Ballets russes. - [Browse in index]
2. Schéhérazade (Choreographic work : Fokin) - [Browse in index]

Call number

1. *MGZFA-20 Opp E Sch 1

Language

1. English

Note

1. Penciled annotation, lower left: Oppler, russisches Ballet. Signed in plate: E. Oppler.
2. The print depicts the moment in Michel Fokine's ballet Schéhérazade when the girls of the harem and their lovers abandon themselves to riotous dancing, as Zobeide and the Favorite Slave embrace on cushions, at left.
3. An unumbered impression on Van Gelder paper, with full margins.

Author

1. Oppler, Ernst, 1867-1929.

Title

1. [Schéhérazade,

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Local subject

1. Prints (Graphic arts) -- Ballet -- 20th century.