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Costume de Melle Thérèse Essler [sic] dans La chatte metamorphosée en femme.: Ballet. Académie Royale de Musique

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Costume de Melle Thérèse Essler [sic] dans La chatte metamorphosée en femme.

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Title
Costume de Melle Thérèse Essler [sic] dans La chatte metamorphosée en femme.: Ballet. Académie Royale de Musique
Additional title: Chatte métamorphosée en femme
Collection

Prints depicting dance

Theatrical dancers, singly or in pairs

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1837 (Approximate)
Place: Paris
Publisher: Hautecoeur-Martinet
Issuance: single unit
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZFB Els T Cha 1
Topics
Chatte métamorphosée en femme (Choreographic work : Coralli)
Ballet -- 19th century
Ballet -- France -- 19th century
Elssler, Thérèse, 1808-1878
Genres
Prints
Notes
Content: Full length to front, looking left, balanced on her left toe, her right leg extended back, left arm raised; wearing white dress trimmed in yellow, blue sash, garland of flowers in hair.
Physical Description
Engravings
Extent: 15.3 x 11 cm.
Description
Elssler in Jean Coralli's ballet La chatte métamorphosée en femme, premiered at the Paris Opéra, Oct. 16, 1837.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12148834
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c59e53e0-18c0-0131-6c2f-58d385a7bbd0
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1837: Issued
  • 2019: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Costume de Melle Thérèse Essler [sic] dans La chatte metamorphosée en femme." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1837. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1be9840-9da5-0131-918b-58d385a7b928

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Costume de Melle Thérèse Essler [sic] dans La chatte metamorphosée en femme." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 30, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1be9840-9da5-0131-918b-58d385a7b928

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1837). Costume de Melle Thérèse Essler [sic] dans La chatte metamorphosée en femme. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1be9840-9da5-0131-918b-58d385a7b928

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1be9840-9da5-0131-918b-58d385a7b928 | title= (still image) Costume de Melle Thérèse Essler [sic] dans La chatte metamorphosée en femme., (1837) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=January 30, 2025 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Costume de Melle Thérèse Essler [sic] dans La chatte metamorphosée en femme.