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Additional authors

1. Champney, W. L.
2. Jahyer, Octave Edouard Jean, 1826-
3. Lacauchie, Alexandre.
4. Leloir, Maurice, 1853-1940.
5. Mesplès, Paul Eugène, 1849-
6. Teia, Casimiro.
7. Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. fnd

Description

1. 37 prints : wood engraving, lithograph, etching, engraving, or aquatint, b&w, hand-colored, or one color; 35 x 28 cm. or smaller.

Summary

1. Collection culled from a variety of sources, depicting action drawings or portraits of women dancers chiefly active during the nineteenth century. Some of the women are better known as actresses or singers but appear here in dance poses or costumes. The collection has been arranged alphabetically by the performers' surnames.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Dance Committee Purchase Fund.

Uniform title

1. Ballou's pictorial.

Subject

1. Blanche, Louise, 1826-
2. Schall, Margarethe, 1775-1852- > Portraits
3. Bongars, Esther de, active 1832-1856
4. Engravings
5. Auber, D. F. E (Daniel François Esprit), 1782-1871 > Lac des fées
6. Portraits
7. Giuri, Marie > Portraits
8. Livry, Emma, 1842-1863
9. Sangalli, Rita, 1849-1909
10. Nina; eller Den vanvittige af kierlighed (Choreographic work : Galeotti)
11. Rosati, Carolina Galetti, 1826-1905 > Portraits
12. Tychsen, Anna Regina Scholl, active 1822
13. Bonfanti, Maria, 1847-1921
14. Sanlaville, Marie
15. Celeste, Madame (Céline), 1814-1882
16. Schall, Margarethe, 1775-1852
17. Deux pigeons (Choreographic work : Mérante)
18. Fuchs, Caroline Augusta > Portraits
19. Lanner, Katti, 1829-1908 > Caricatures and cartoons
20. Muravʹeva, Marḟa Nikolaevna, 1838-1879 > Caricatures and cartoons
21. Gillert, Theodora de
22. Sheet music covers
23. Wood engravings
24. Angelini, Giuseppa
25. Ciocca, Giovanna > Portraits
26. Lithographs
27. Chameroy, Marie Adrienne, 1779-1802
28. Nau, Maria, 1818-1891
29. Beretta, Caterina, 1840-1911 > Portraits
30. Grahn, Lucile, 1819-1907
31. Price, Amalia, active approximately 1849-1853 > Portraits
32. Kermessen i Brügge; eller De tre Gaver (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
33. Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
34. Qualitz, Clara
35. Cerrito, Fanny
36. Lamoureux, Louise, active 1857
37. Women dancers > 19th century
38. Rolla, Teresa
39. Blasis, Annunziata Ramaccini, 1807-1892 > Portraits
40. Héberlé, Thérèse, 1806-1840
41. Bella, Antoinetta > Portraits
42. Mérante, Annette
43. Zoel, Marie

Genre/Form

1. Portraits.
2. Wood engravings.
3. Lithographs.
4. Engravings.
5. Sheet music covers.

Contents

1. Folder 1. Giuseppina Angiolini [Giuseppa Angelini; in the role of] Arsace nella Semi[rami]de / Ripani [?] del. -- Mlle. Augusta [stage name of Caroline Augusta Fuchs] -- La prima ballerina Signora Antonietta [sic] Bella; [L'illustrazione italiana, 21 febbraio 1886] / disegno di A. Cairoli -- Antoinetta Bella, premiere danseuse -- Catterina [sic] Beretta; Galleria Artistica Teatrale, [1856] / [signed on stone] C. Teja -- Portrait of Madlle. Louise Blanche [as Columbine in Harlequin Old Parr; with accompanying article on the verso]; Theatrical times, Feb. 3, 1849 -- Gli Allievi dell' I.R. Accademia di ballo e di mimica in Milano l'anno 1838 consacravano ad Annunziata Blasis -- Marietta Bonfanti [on the verso: Madame Ristori] -- Esther de Bongars; Paris, publié par Mareham / Alex[andre] Lacauchie -- Madame Celeste as Eugenia Claircille [with accompanying article]; Theatrical times, Oct. 17, 1846 -- Mdlle. Cerito, as la Vivandiere [with accompanying article]; Illustrated London News, June 1, 1844 -- Fanny Cerrito; Theatrical portraits [on mount with review and reproductions].
2. Folder 2. [Melle. Chameroy; handwritten in pencil] -- Signora Ciocca / Roberts sc. -- Mlle. Theodora de Gillert, premier dancer -- Maria Giuri -- Mdlle. Lucile Grahn [with accompanying article] / copied from a French print -- Lucile Grahn; Portraitgalerie, Taf. XL; [penciled on the verso: from Die Bilder-Welt, Leipzig, J.J. Weber, 1858] -- [Teresa Heberle, 1840; penciled on the verso] -- Souvenir de ballet, Lamoureux galop du Faust [sheet music cover portraying Louise Lamoureux]; Boston, Russell & Richardson, 1857 / J.H. Bufford's Lith. -- M'lle. [Louise] Lamoureux, the celebrated danseuse [with accompanying article]; Ballou's pictorial, Jan. 16, 1858 / [signed on matrix] Champney -- Miss Katti Lanner (the ballet); The Entr'acte, Dec. 31, 1887 / [initialed on matrix] A.B. [?] -- The new danseuse, Emma Livry -- A. Mérante / [signed on stone] Maurice Leloir ; Franck, phot. ; M. Leloir, sc. ; Imp. Cadart.
3. Folder 3. Mourawieff se faisant applaudir pour sa manière de lever la jambe [cartoon of Marfa Muravʹëva] -- Mlle. [Maria] Nau, costume de Zélia [sic] dans le Lac des fées (Academie Royale de Musique); Le monde dramatique / Imp. d'Aubert & Cie. -- Amalia Price -- Clara Qualitz -- [Mlle. Teresa Rolla; handwritten in pencil] -- [Mlle. Rosati; handwritten in ink] -- Rosati / O. Jahyer del. sc. -- Rita Sangalli; Beauties and celebrities of the stage [on the verso: Madame La Grange] -- Les deux pigeons, Pepio; [Mlle. Sanlaville; handwritten in pencil] / A. Bianchini inv. ; E. Mesples del. -- Madame Schall som Nina / Chr. J. Catos. Lith. -- A.M. Schall [with verse signed N.T. Bruun] / Hornemann [?] del. ; A. Flint sc. -- Fräulein Schiller als falsche Pepita / [signed on stone] Alb. Decker -- Fru Anna Tychsen i Kermessen i Brügge / [initialed on matrix] C.P. -- Miss Marie Zoel, as she appears in her celebrated clog hornpipe.

Call number

1. *MGZFX Wom 1-38

Note

1. Title devised by cataloger.
2. The print "M'lle. Lamoureux, the celebrated danseuse" is accompanied by Ballou's pictorial, Jan. 16, 1858, p. [33]-48. It includes articles and illustrations on subjects other than dance.

Funding (note)

1. M'lle Lamoureux (Ballou's pictorial) purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source (note)

1. Lillian Moore.
2. Lincoln Kirstein.

Biography (note)

1. Brief notes on various dancers: Louise Blanche, b. 1826 in Portsmouth, England, danced at the Lyceum, Strand, and other London theatres. The dancer identified here as Marietta Bonfanti is probably the Italian-born ballerina Maria Bonfanti, who toured and taught in the United States. The actress Esther de Bongars appeared on the Parisian stage from 1832 to 1856. Melle. Chameroy, whose first name is variously given as Marie Adrienne, Adrienne, or Louise, was a dancer at the Paris Opéra. Signora Ciocca is probably Giovanna Ciocca, an Italian ballerina who came to the United States in 1847, and performed with George Washington Smith. This collection's two prints of Danish ballerina Lucile Grahn both depict her in a much-copied pose from the ballet La sylphide, which she first danced in August Bournonville's version in 1836. The Austrian-born dancer Teresa or Thérèse Héberlé danced in Italy in the 1820s-1830s. The dancer identified as A. Mérante may be Annette Mérante. In the cartoon of Marfa Muravʹëva, the word Diavolina is both the title and the main character (danced by Muravʹëva) of Arthur Saint-Léon's ballet, first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1863. Le lac des fées, an opera by Daniel Auber (first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1839) featured the soprano Maria Nau, wearing a ballet dancer's tutu, in the role of the fairy Zéila. The Italian-born dancer Teresa Rolla performed at Niblo's Garden, New York, in the late 1850s. Marie Sanlaville is depicted in the breeches role of Pepio in Louis Mérante's ballet Les deux pigeons, first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1886; the ballet's costumes were designed by Bianchini, whose name appears on the print. The Danish ballerina Margrethe Schall, whose first names are also given as Anna Margrethe or Margarethe, was a leading dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet from 1798 to 1827; one of the prints in this collection portrays her In the title role of Vincenzo Galeotti's ballet Nina (1802). Fräulein Schiller may be Kathi Schiller, b. 1830. Anna Tychsen is depicted in August Bournonville's ballet Kermessen i Brügge, first performed by the Royal Danish Ballet in 1851. Marie Zoel was praised for her clog dancing in the Yankee Clipper of Apr. 16, 1870.

Title

1. Women dancers in prints [graphic].

Imprint

1. [18--?]

Funding

1. M'lle Lamoureux (Ballou's pictorial) purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography

1. Brief notes on various dancers: Louise Blanche, b. 1826 in Portsmouth, England, danced at the Lyceum, Strand, and other London theatres. The dancer identified here as Marietta Bonfanti is probably the Italian-born ballerina Maria Bonfanti, who toured and taught in the United States. The actress Esther de Bongars appeared on the Parisian stage from 1832 to 1856. Melle. Chameroy, whose first name is variously given as Marie Adrienne, Adrienne, or Louise, was a dancer at the Paris Opéra. Signora Ciocca is probably Giovanna Ciocca, an Italian ballerina who came to the United States in 1847, and performed with George Washington Smith. This collection's two prints of Danish ballerina Lucile Grahn both depict her in a much-copied pose from the ballet La sylphide, which she first danced in August Bournonville's version in 1836. The Austrian-born dancer Teresa or Thérèse Héberlé danced in Italy in the 1820s-1830s. The dancer identified as A. Mérante may be Annette Mérante. In the cartoon of Marfa Muravʹëva, the word Diavolina is both the title and the main character (danced by Muravʹëva) of Arthur Saint-Léon's ballet, first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1863. Le lac des fées, an opera by Daniel Auber (first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1839) featured the soprano Maria Nau, wearing a ballet dancer's tutu, in the role of the fairy Zéila. The Italian-born dancer Teresa Rolla performed at Niblo's Garden, New York, in the late 1850s. Marie Sanlaville is depicted in the breeches role of Pepio in Louis Mérante's ballet Les deux pigeons, first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1886; the ballet's costumes were designed by Bianchini, whose name appears on the print. The Danish ballerina Margrethe Schall, whose first names are also given as Anna Margrethe or Margarethe, was a leading dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet from 1798 to 1827; one of the prints in this collection portrays her In the title role of Vincenzo Galeotti's ballet Nina (1802). Fräulein Schiller may be Kathi Schiller, b. 1830. Anna Tychsen is depicted in August Bournonville's ballet Kermessen i Brügge, first performed by the Royal Danish Ballet in 1851. Marie Zoel was praised for her clog dancing in the Yankee Clipper of Apr. 16, 1870.

Local note

1. Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
2. For another copy of the portrait of Mlle. Augusta [Caroline Augusta Fuchs], see: *MGZFB Fuc C P 1.
3. A. Cairoli's portrait of Antoinetta Bella appeared on p. 155 of L'illustrazione italiana, 21 febbraio 1886, issue devoted to Luigi Manzotti's ballet Amor; see: (S) *MGTZ-Res.++ (Amor) 74-638.
4. For another copy of the print depicting the portrait bust of Annunziata Blasis, see: *MGZFB Bla A P 1.
5. For variants of the image of Lucile Grahn in La sylphide, see: *MGZFB Gra L Syl 1-3.
6. The portrait of Amalia Price is based on and reverses an image by Carl Marius Nikolai Simonsen; see: *MGZFB Pri A P 1.
7. Digitized versions of the print Fräulein Schiller als falsche Pepita are available as part of the Music Division's Muller Collection at: NYPL Digital Gallery Image ID: 1713171, 1713172.

Source

1. Giuseppina Angiolini, Annunziata Blasis, [Melle. Chameroy], Lucile Grahn (Portraitgalerie), [Teresa Heberle], Lamoureux galop, A. Mérante, Amalia Price, Clara Qualitz, [Mlle. Rosati], Les deux pigeons Gift; Lillian Moore.
2. Esther de Bongars, Katti Lanner, [Teresa Rolla] Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

Added author

1. Champney, W. L. Engraver
2. Jahyer, Octave Edouard Jean, 1826- Artist
3. Lacauchie, Alexandre. Lithographer
4. Leloir, Maurice, 1853-1940. Engraver
5. Mesplès, Paul Eugène, 1849- Artist
6. Teia, Casimiro. Lithographer
7. Moore, Lillian. Donor
8. Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Donor
9. Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder

Added title

1. Ballou's pictorial.

Research call number

1. *MGZFX Wom 1-38