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Marie Guy-Stephan dancing 'Las Boleras de Cadiz'

Painting
ca. 1844 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Lynch, J. H. (painter)
Place of origin
London (painted)

On a terrace, before a low wall, with a square building to right background and low bushes to left, stands a full length female figure, facing left, wearing the Romantic Ballet version of a Spanish dress, with front-laced low cut bodice and short sleeves and knee-length full skirt with deep flounce of black lace above the hem. She leans back from the waist, her left leg extended to front, her left arm curved over her head, her right arm held down, and she holds castanets.

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Painting
TitleMarie Guy-Stephan dancing 'Las Boleras de Cadiz' (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Oil
Canvas
Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, after J H Lynch, depicting Marie Guy-Stephan dancing Las Boleras de Cadiz in L'Aurore, Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1843
Physical description
On a terrace, before a low wall, with a square building to right background and low bushes to left, stands a full length female figure, facing left, wearing the Romantic Ballet version of a Spanish dress, with front-laced low cut bodice and short sleeves and knee-length full skirt with deep flounce of black lace above the hem. She leans back from the waist, her left leg extended to front, her left arm curved over her head, her right arm held down, and she holds castanets.
Dimensions
  • Height: 482mm
  • Width: 399mm
Credit line
Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest
Object history
Las Boleras de Cadiz was a Spanish dance performed by Marie Guy-Stephan in the divertissement L'Aurore at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1843. The following year, a lithograph by C G Lynch after a drawing by J H Lynch, of which the painting appears to be a copy, was published by William Spooner. The painting shows the dancer in the same pose, the same building appears background right, but the detailed depicition of the Scuola di San Marco in Venice which appears to left centre and the building at extreme left in the print is replaced in the painting, with a low bush to left background.
The painting came to the Museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest.
Subject depicted
Guy-Stephan, Marie
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Ashton, Geoffrey, Catalogue of Paintings at theTheatre Museum, London, edited by James Fowler, Victoria & Albert Museum in association with The Society for Theatre Research, London, 1992, cat. 36
  • Beaumont, Cyril and Sitwell, Sacheverell, The Romantic Ballet in Lithographs of the Time, Faber and Faber, London, 1938, p130 No. 86, p264 plate 61
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.103-1986

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Record createdJuly 18, 2001
Record URL
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