THE THEATER
Prints and Drawings Of, In, For and About
Prints and Drawings Of, In, For and About
- Glintenkamp: Muse Thalia
- Callot: Soliman Act I
- Desperet, Molière : "L’Avare"
- Schaffhauser: Angelica
- Green: David Garrick, Esqr.
- Toulouse-Lautrec: Le Coiffeur
- Thew: Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Parigi: La Flora
- Sloan: The Green Hour
- Brocard: Design
- Brouwer: Het Winter Bosch
- Doré: Paons (Peacocks)
- Houston: Mr. Berry
- Guyot: Les Trois Sultanes
- Beerbohm: Coquelin Aîné
- Knight: At the Footlights
- Thew: King Henry the Fifth
- Anquetin: Le Théâtre Libre
- Say: Miss Mellon
- Fabbroni: Two Stage Settings
- Hogarth: Mr. Garrick
- Guérard: Marionette
- Edelinck: The Comic Actor
- Renouard: Le Fond de la Loge
- Watson: Lady Sarah Lennox
- Toulouse-Lautrec: Aux Variétés
- Ogborne: Henry the Sixth
- Doré: Seraphin
- Monogrammist WHN: The Riot at Covent Garden
- Janinet: Nina
- Régamey: A Figure from the Commedia dell’Arte
- Vuillard: Solnes, le Constructeur
- Circle of Delacroix: Mademoiselle George
- de Bruycker: Théâtre (Ténor)
- Audran: Design
- Bormann: The State Opera
- Desboutin: Dailly
- Toulouse-Lautrec: Yvette Guilbert
- Marceau: Three Clowns
- Rados: Stage Design
- Daumier: Carotte Dramatique
- Rops: Caricature Portrait
- Ibels: L’Amour S’Amuse
- Daumier: Les Théâtres
- Markham: The Show is Over
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12. Gustave Doré (1832-1883) Paons (Peacocks) |
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Paons (Peacocks)
Lithograph, 1854, from La Ménagerie Parisienne, 230 x 295 mm., Béraldi 67, No. 6, B. N. Inv. 192, No. 6.
The boxes of the theater, filled to overflowing with female fashion-plates (not a man in sight), posing, conversing, checking each other out, anything but watching the stage. No wonder Doré’s menagerie categorizes them as peacocks (the feminine “peahen” just doesn’t have the same bite)! The Ménagerie was Doré’s attempt to represent Parisian society, both high and low, in animalistic terms, running the gamut from lions to toads. A fine impression on white wove paper with good margins
