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[Madame Celeste as the Maid of Cashmere]
- Title
- [Madame Celeste as the Maid of Cashmere] [graphic] / Y. [?] Ancell, del.
- Author
- Ancell.
- Publication
- 1838.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Parris, E. T. (Edmund Thomas), 1793-1873.
- Description
- 1 painting : watercolor, gouache over graphite, metallic appliqué, col.; 36 x 26 cm.
- Summary
- Depiction of the dancer-actress known as Madame Celeste in the title role of The maid of Cashmere, an English adaptation of Daniel Auber's opera ballet Le dieu et la bayadère. This painting is based on a 1837 lithograph by E.T. Parris, signed and dated on stone, published in London by Hodgson & Graves in the same year. The pose and costume of Celeste closely follow the lithograph, and elements of the landscape behind her, though more sketchily rendered, are similar. In the painting, Celeste's costume and accessories have been embellished with multicolored metallic appliqués.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Paintings.
- Note
- Signed and dated. The letter or letters preceding the last name Ancell are unclear.
- Title devised by cataloger.
- For additional information on the life and career of Celeste, see: Swift, Mary Grace. Belles and beaux on their toes: dancing stars in young America. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980.
- Biography (note)
- Céline Celeste (sometimes called Celeste Keppler), 1810-1882, was born in France, but spent much of her life in the United States and England. She began her performing career as a dancer but subsequently gained fame as an actress. In later life she also became a theatre manager in London, first at the Adelphi Theatre where she worked alongside Benjamin Webster, with whom she had a long relationship, and afterwards at the Lyceum Theatre. She danced the leading role in The maid of Cashmere at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in 1833, and directed and starred in a new production of the work at the National Theatre, New York, in 1836.
- Call Number
- *MGZGA Anc Cel 1
- OCLC
- 753559996
- Author
- Ancell.
- Title
- [Madame Celeste as the Maid of Cashmere] [graphic] / Y. [?] Ancell, del.
- Imprint
- 1838.
- Biography
- Céline Celeste (sometimes called Celeste Keppler), 1810-1882, was born in France, but spent much of her life in the United States and England. She began her performing career as a dancer but subsequently gained fame as an actress. In later life she also became a theatre manager in London, first at the Adelphi Theatre where she worked alongside Benjamin Webster, with whom she had a long relationship, and afterwards at the Lyceum Theatre. She danced the leading role in The maid of Cashmere at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in 1833, and directed and starred in a new production of the work at the National Theatre, New York, in 1836.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.For the lithograph by E.T. Parris, which is hand-colored, see: *MGZFF Cel Die 2. For a b&w version of this print, published in 1838, see: *MGZFF Cel Die 1.
- Local Subject
- Opera ballet. Le dieu et la bayadère.
- Added Author
- Parris, E. T. (Edmund Thomas), 1793-1873. Associated name
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGA Anc Cel 1