Les Artistes Contemporaines
1832
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1832
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Les Artistes Contemporaines is a 1832 by Llanta, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows five ballet dancers from the Paris Opéra in 1832, all caught in fancy hair styles that would never work on stage. Only two names are famous today: Marie Taglioni and Lise Noblet. These off-stage portraits show how dancers posed for prints even when not performing. The hair fashions of the early 1830s were all curls and volume, far from the tight buns that later became standard. Look next at Llanta.
The lithograph depicts six female dancers from the Paris Opéra in 1832, arranged in two rows with the central figure slightly elevated. They are shown in off-stage attire, wearing high-waisted, low-necked dresses with broad belts and elaborate early-1830s hairstyles, accompanied by decorative motifs including a lyre, butterfly, laurel wreath, and a Punch figure. The identified dancers are Marie Taglioni, Lise Noblet, Pauline Montessu, Amélie Legallois, and Alexis Dupont, with one figure, Julia, remaining unidentified. Taglioni and Noblet later achieved international recognition as dancers.
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Llanta made prints in the 1830s, mostly portraits of working artists in their studios.
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