Untitled
8
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
8
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Untitled is an 8 by Jules Bouvier, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Jules Bouvier made this print in 1846 for a ballet called Le Jugement de Paris. It shows the moment when the dancer Saint-Léon, playing Paris, holds the golden apple. The print was designed to match an earlier lithograph of the Pas de Quatre. Both prints share the same size and type style. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
The print depicts a scene from the ballet *Le Jugement de Paris*, choreographed by Jules Perrot and performed in 1846. In the center, Paris (played by Saint-Léon) stands in a classical pose, holding a golden apple and wearing a short tunic with silver trim. To his left, a ballerina representing Venus kneels in a pleading gesture, dressed in a mid-19th-century ballet costume with flowers in her hair. To his right, another ballerina, likely Minerva, kneels with arms raised, wearing a similar dress with a star-adorned headband, while a third ballerina, possibly Juno, stands behind her holding a…
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Jules Bouvier made 19th-century lithographs that turned leading ballet dancers into star prints.
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