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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35. Attributed to Claude Audran III (1658-1734) Design for a Theater Curtain |
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Design for a Theater Curtain
Original drawing in black chalk and white gouache, 504 x 416 mm., ex collections: Lodewijk Houthakker; Hans Calmann, 1967. A finished compositional drawing on brown laid paper, laid down to another sheet. The complex, symmetrical composition employs three decorated arches, the central one being a fountain with figures of Apollo and Diana, and two musicians (real or sculpted) seated below. A low balustrade extends on both sides and a group of elegantly-dressed figures stand or sit at front center. Other figures, shrubbery, architectural elements are placed around and at the very top is an unrelated ornamental border, leading one to believe that the design is for a curtain, probably a theater curtain, and possibly for the stage of the theater at Versailles. Audran was for a time Watteau's master and was responsible for much of the decoration at Versailles and other palaces. A great deal of his work has been either lost or destroyed. This drawing was exhibited at the Noordbrabants Museum in 1976.
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