Original hand-colored lithograph by R.J. Lane, printed by J. Graf after a portrait by A.E. Chalon, linen-backed. Image: approx. 27x19.5 cm (10¾x7¾"); frame: 56x45 cm (22x17¾"). Facsimile signature of Pauline Duvernay. The print represents Duvernay in her cachucha costume as Florinda in The Devil on Two Sticks, a role in which she triumphed at Drury Lane, in London in 1836. Pauline Duvernary, (1813-1894) studied at the ballet school of the Paris Opera and was the prize student of Auguste Vestris. By all reports she was a great beauty who at the time rivaled Marie Taglioni. The author William Makepeace Thackerary, whocould write biting criticism of Taglioni, could, quoting from Beaumont and Sitwell, "rhapsodize over Duvernay, whom he called ‘a vision of loveliness, such as mortal eyes can't see nowadays.'"Thackeray also realized that Duvernay's dancing reflected a new style which came to be called "romantic" ballet when he exclaimed: "There has never been anything like it– never." Thackeray, William M. Roundabout Papers (1836); Guest, (1954); Beaumont & Sitwell.
Original hand-colored lithograph by R.J. Lane, printed by J. Graf after a portrait by A.E. Chalon, linen-backed. Image: approx. 27x19.5 cm (10¾x7¾"); frame: 56x45 cm (22x17¾"). Facsimile signature of Pauline Duvernay. The print represents Duvernay in her cachucha costume as Florinda in The Devil on Two Sticks, a role in which she triumphed at Drury Lane, in London in 1836. Pauline Duvernary, (1813-1894) studied at the ballet school of the Paris Opera and was the prize student of Auguste Vestris. By all reports she was a great beauty who at the time rivaled Marie Taglioni. The author William Makepeace Thackerary, whocould write biting criticism of Taglioni, could, quoting from Beaumont and Sitwell, "rhapsodize over Duvernay, whom he called ‘a vision of loveliness, such as mortal eyes can't see nowadays.'"Thackeray also realized that Duvernay's dancing reflected a new style which came to be called "romantic" ballet when he exclaimed: "There has never been anything like it– never." Thackeray, William M. Roundabout Papers (1836); Guest, (1954); Beaumont & Sitwell.
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