The Celebrated Spanish Dance Las Boleras de Cadiz danced by Marie Guy Stephan
1844
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1844
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Celebrated Spanish Dance Las Boleras de Cadiz danced by Marie Guy Stephan is a 1844 by Graf, C., a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a famous Spanish dance scene from 1844. It’s a print, not a painting, so lines and shading define the image. The print captures a trend: 1840s Londoners loved “exotic” Spanish dances. The dancer, Marie Guy-Stephan, was a star in Madrid after winning fame in London. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see this print in person.
The print depicts a female dancer performing a Spanish dance, positioned on a terrace with Italianate buildings in the background. She holds castanets in her hands, her right arm raised above her head while her left arm extends downward, with her right leg supporting her turned-out stance and left leg extended forward. Her costume features a black bodice with a low neckline and short sleeves, trimmed with black lace, paired with a pale pink, bell-shaped skirt adorned with a deep black lace flounce, and she wears black ballet slippers without ribbons. The image, produced in the 1840s, reflects…
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Cecilia Graf spent her London years turning theater fluff into art. She turned a fleeting dance night into a print that still feels alive: those frilled skirts, those stomps, the way the gaslight caught the room. Look…
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