A full sized color reproduction (one of 6 lithographs by Jules Bouvier -part of a portfolio "THE ROMANTIC BALLET)
Selling separately...willing to combine shipping if interested in purchasing more.) WILL INCLUDE COPY OF FOREWORD BY GEORGE CHAFFEE
Fanny Cerrito in the ballet ALMA - OU LA FILLE DU FEU Lithograph colored by hand after a drawing by J Bouvier,
NO.359
Copyright 1945 David Ashley, Inc. NYC
Collection of George Chaffee
Made in USA
A girl dances on a riverbank, against a medieval-style townscape with a bridge to the right. Her left foot is pointed and about to land after a jump, the right leg is crossed behind; her arms are raised above her head and in her left hand she holds a blue-edged tambourine, which she strikes with her right index finger. Her head is tilted and her severely dressed hair falls into long thin plaits with ribbons to the front and she wears a striped headband, knotted over her left ear. Her knee-length ballet dress has a fitted short-sleeved white bodice, the very low, wide V neck edged with dark blue outlined in yellow, extending to the waist with a yellow motif centre front; around the waist is a blue and yellow striped belt. The white skirt has a blue band towards the hem and is overlaid with a back and a front panel, striped alternately blue and white with, proper right of each blue stripe, a fine yellow and a fine black stripe. On the ground are flower sprays.