Scene from the Opera "Sylvie"
date: label: Date
content: 1766
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Tilliard
label: After
content: Louis Carrogis, called Carmontelle, France, 1717 – 1806
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. The figures of the actor Louis Bercher, called "Dauberval" (1728-1803) and the actress Marie Allard (1742-1802) are seen in a wooded landscape in the act of doing a ballet dance. The scene is Act II of the opera "Sylvie" by P. M. Bertoux Trial. Five lines of verse from the opera in lower margin.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1956-94-1
objectType: label: Type
content: theater
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 37.8 × 43 cm (14 7/8 × 16 15/16 in.)