Mademoiselle Carlotta Grisi,
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
This print shows a stage scene from an 1840s Romantic ballet. The dancer Carlotta Grisi plays a peri, an exotic spirit from Persian myth. The print freezes the moment she leaps from a cloud, about to land in her lover’s arms. Critics praised her leap as light as a feather, not just a stunt. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
