Research Catalog

Title

Madame Auriol as Columbine [graphic].

Publication

London : J. Redington, [1847? or later]

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Details

Additional Authors

Danilova, Alexandra, 1903-1997, donor

Found In

Alexandra Danilova collection.

Description

1 collage : etching on paper, metallic appliqué, mica flakes, lace, hand-colored; visible image 27 x 16 cm., in frame 30 x 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Alexandra Danilova collection. Graphics.

Subject

• Auriol, Francesca
• Columbine (Fictitious character)

Genre/Form

Etchings.

Note

• Numbered at lower right: 46.
• The Victoria and Albert Museum identifies the engraver of this print as J.W. Hodges.
• For brief biographical information on Francesca Auriol, see: Chaffee, George, "The Romantic ballet in London: 1821-1858, some hitherto unremarked aspects," in Dance index, vol. II, nos. 9-12, Sept.-Dec. 1943, p. 164.

Source (note)

• Alexandra Danilova.

Biography (note)

• According to George Chaffee (see reference above), the dancer Francesca Auriol, d. 1862, made her debut in London at the Royal Italian Opera in 1847, and later joined the ballet troupe of the Princess's Theatre. She married the well-known English comic dancer Dicky Flexmore, with whom she was depicted by the lithographer C. Baugniet in a scene from Flexmore's version of La Esmeralda (1848). The couple performed together both in England and abroad. Columbine, the character depicted in this print, originated in the Italian commedia dell'arte. With her inamorato Harlequin, she became a stock figure in many nineteenth-century English pantomimes.
• The Victoria and Albert Museum, which holds similarly decorated examples of this print, identifies it as a tinsel print, a popular form of amateur craftwork for adults in the first half of the nineteenth century.
• Alexandra Danilova, the former owner of this print, trained at the Imperial Ballet School and began her performing career in Russia, but left in 1924 with George Balanchine, for whom she was, for a time, muse and romantic partner. She danced with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and other ballet companies, and for many fans she epitomized the glamourous Russian ballerina.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Alexandra Danilova collection. Graphics.

Local note

• Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
• For other versions of this image, see: *MGZFB Aur F U 1 and *MGZFB Aur F U 2.

Call Number

*MGZGR Aur 1

OCLC

824618737

Title

Madame Auriol as Columbine [graphic].

Imprint

London : J. Redington, [1847? or later]

Summary

Full-length figure of a female dancer, depicted in an active pose, stepping forward on her right foot as she curves her left arm over her head. In the landscape behind her are a circular temple and a fountain. This image is a collage that has been cut from a theatrical print and embellished with metallic appliqués, mica flakes, and a tiny strip of lace at the dancer's bodice. The background has been hand-painted with blue clouds.

Biography

According to George Chaffee (see reference above), the dancer Francesca Auriol, d. 1862, made her debut in London at the Royal Italian Opera in 1847, and later joined the ballet troupe of the Princess's Theatre. She married the well-known English comic dancer Dicky Flexmore, with whom she was depicted by the lithographer C. Baugniet in a scene from Flexmore's version of La Esmeralda (1848). The couple performed together both in England and abroad. Columbine, the character depicted in this print, originated in the Italian commedia dell'arte. With her inamorato Harlequin, she became a stock figure in many nineteenth-century English pantomimes.

The Victoria and Albert Museum, which holds similarly decorated examples of this print, identifies it as a tinsel print, a popular form of amateur craftwork for adults in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Alexandra Danilova, the former owner of this print, trained at the Imperial Ballet School and began her performing career in Russia, but left in 1924 with George Balanchine, for whom she was, for a time, muse and romantic partner. She danced with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and other ballet companies, and for many fans she epitomized the glamourous Russian ballerina.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Alexandra Danilova collection. Graphics.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

For other versions of this image, see: *MGZFB Aur F U 1 and *MGZFB Aur F U 2.

Source

Gift; Alexandra Danilova.

Added Author

Danilova, Alexandra, 1903-1997, donor.

Added Title

Alexandra Danilova collection. Graphics.

Found In:

Alexandra Danilova collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZGR Aur 1