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Additional authors

1. Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. fnd

Description

1. Engraving; 46 x 36.5 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Dance Committee Purchase Fund.

Subject

1. Prints (Graphic arts) > Social dancing > 18th century
2. Balls, Costume
3. Dance > France > 18th century
4. Commedia dell'arte
5. Ballrooms
6. Social dancing > 18th century

Call number

1. *MGZFH Mor J Bal 1

Note

1. Designed and engraved by Moreau le jeune.
2. An engraving commemorating a ball given by the "king and queen" of the city of Paris, January 23, 1782, in honor of the Dauphin and Marie Antoinette.
3. Dancers, some masked and in commedia dell'arte attire, mill about, probably in the great ballroom of the Hotel de Ville, Paris. Musicians play on a raised platform in the background and guests look down from a balcony.

Funding (note)

1. Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Author

1. Moreau, Jean Michel, 1741-1814.

Title

1. [Le bal masqué.

Imprint

1. Paris, 1782]

Funding

1. Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Local note

1. This item may be offsite for digitization. For additional information please contact dance@nypl.org.

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1. Request Access to Special Collections (Dance Division) material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Local subject

1. Commedia dell'arte.

Local subject

1. Social dancing -- 18th century.
2. Prints (Graphic arts) -- Social dancing -- 18th century.
3. Balls, Costume.

Added author

1. Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder

Research call number

1. *MGZFH Mor J Bal 1