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Setting for Noverre's Ballet "The Persian Fair"

Austrian School
18th century

Setting for Noverre's Ballet "The Persian Fair"

1769 Apr. 15
8 1/8 x 12 1/2 inches (207 x 318 mm)
Pen and black ink on paper.
1982.75:40

Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.

Notes
In the "Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo," Noverre is credited with having devised the ballet, "The Persian Fair," for the Burg Theatre, Vienna, in 1769. Bruce Alan Brown has tentatively identified this drawing as the work of Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg, architect of the Gloriette in the gardens at Schonbrunn Palace.
Inscriptions/Markings
See translation behind drawing. There is a scale and many details of properties used in this production.
Associated names
Goldschmidt, Lucien, former owner.
Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department