Sketches at the Ballet. Lucile Grahn.
1844
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1844
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sketches at the Ballet. Lucile Grahn. is a 1844 by Mourilyan & Casey, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows Lucile Grahn, a Danish ballerina from the 1840s. She danced on pointe, balancing on her toes. That wasn’t easy in the 1840s—pointe shoes barely supported dancers then. By the time Grahn retired, she had shifted from performing to choreographing ballets for Wagner’s operas. The print captures a moment when ballet technique was changing fast. Look up Romanticism next.
The print depicts Lucile Grahn, a pioneering Danish ballerina of the 1840s, standing en pointe with one leg extended behind her in profile to the right, her arms raised and head turned toward the viewer. She wears a blue off-the-shoulder dress with decorative bands on the upper arms and hem, paired with pink ballet slippers tied with ribbons, and holds a diaphanous stole that billows around her. The image is part of the *Sketches at the Ballet* series, though the total number of prints remains unknown. It was later included in the Rambert-Dukes collection of Romantic ballet prints, donated to…
Read the full account in the museum source.
They spent their days sketching in the back row of the Paris Opera, where the cheap tickets let them watch the dancers close up.
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