Pauline Duvernay (1812-1894) as Florinda in Jean Coralli's Le Diable Boiteux (1836)
John Frederick Lewis, RA (London 1805 – Walton-on-Thames 1876)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1837
Materials
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Measurements
387 x 286 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Arlington Court, Devon (Accredited Museum)
NT 985713
Summary
Hand-coloured lithograph, Pauline Duvernay (1812-1894) as Florinda in Jean Coralli's Le Diable Boiteux (1836) by John Frederick Lewis, RA (London 1805 – Walton-on-Thames 1876), after his own watercolour, 1837. The dancer is shown in the Spanish dance La Cachucha in Coralli/Gide's ballet, translated as The Devil on Two Sticks or The Lame Devil, performed at the Paris Opera in 1836. The dance was immortalised by Fanny Elssler (1810 - 1884) (whose name is insrcibed in pencil) for which the poet Théophile Gautier called her the 'pagan' dancer, implying sexy. There is another state in the V&A.
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscibed in pencil: Fanny Elssler in the costume of a Florine in the Ballet 'Le Diable Boiteux' dancing the Cachucha. At the Paris Opera 1836.
Makers and roles
John Frederick Lewis, RA (London 1805 – Walton-on-Thames 1876), artist Charles Joseph Hullmandel (London 1789 - London 1850), printer Thomas McLean (1788-1875), engraver and publisher