Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Taglioni.
Call Number
E East 47/GC077/Box 31/Normal/19th c./Artists I-Lam GA 2012.00708
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcv405sp74f
Publisher
Paris : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1833-1846
Extent
1 item ; sheet 31 x 22.8 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Lithographs
Item description: Subject is the Italian ballet dancer whose delicate dancing typfied the early 19th century Romantic style. She trained with her dancer-choreographer father, Fillipo Taglioni (1777-1871), making her debut in Vienna in 1822. Her father helped develop her unique technique, and she danced in his La sylphide at the Paris Opera in 1832 to great acclaim. She toured throughout Europe and danced with the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg 1837-42; she retired in 1847. She was one of the first to dance on pointe, to include floating leaps and the arabesque in her technical repertoire, and to dress in the full, light skirt that would evolve into the tutu.
Depiction: Full-length portrait, 3/4 right profile of Taglioni in ballerina costume with butterfly wings, leaping barefoot on stage.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Lith de Rigo freres, Pass. Saulnier, 19".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Alexe. Lacauchie".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Publie par Marchaun".

Discovery Information

Subject
Ballerinas—Italy—18th century—Portraits
Taglioni, Marie, 1804-1884—Portraits
Portraits, Italian—18th century
Schneitzhoeffer, Jean-Madeleine, 1785-1852. Sylphide..
Ballet—France—Paris—History—19th century—Portraits
Taglioni, Marie, 1804-1884—Performances
Portraits

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/db24abe1-db0d-4a01-b9c5-3b357384dd25/manifest