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3 Grazien
- Title
- 3 Grazien [graphic].
- Publication
- [1797?]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *MGZGA Anon Gra 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 drawing : watercolor, col.; 23 x 15 cm.
- Summary
- Costume design? for the three Graces, represented here by a single female figure. She wears a simple white dress in the style of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries, ornamented with bands embroidered with green vines. From a matching headband, a pink scarf falls down her back and is secured at her waist. Her feet are bare.
- Alternative Title
- Drei Grazien
- Subject
- Graces, The
- Genre/Form
- Costume design drawings.
- Note
- Three names, possibly of dancers, are lightly penciled at lower left: Telle, Schultzer, Zanini.
- Penciled on the verso: Mlles. Telle, Schultzer, Zanini; "Three Graces"; Berlin, c. 1797; from a ballet by Vigano?
- Source (note)
- Lillian Moore.
- Biography (note)
- In ancient Greek myth, the Graces or Charites were goddesses of charm, beauty, creativity, and fertility. They were frequently represented in the visual arts, and with their attractive feminine qualities were apt subjects for dance works. This design may have been made for one of Salvatore Viganò's ballets in Berlin.
- Call Number
- *MGZGA Anon Gra 2
- OCLC
- 793200470
- Title
- 3 Grazien [graphic].
- Imprint
- [1797?]
- Biography
- In ancient Greek myth, the Graces or Charites were goddesses of charm, beauty, creativity, and fertility. They were frequently represented in the visual arts, and with their attractive feminine qualities were apt subjects for dance works. This design may have been made for one of Salvatore Viganò's ballets in Berlin.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- Gift; Lillian Moore.
- Added Author
- Moore, Lillian. Donor
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGA Anon Gra 2