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On Stage!Costume Designs from the Edmond de Rothschild Collection
28 October 2021 – 31 January 2022
On Stage!
Costume Designs from the Edmond de Rothschild Collection
28 October 2021 – 31 January 2022
Overview
The Edmond de Rothschild Collection boasts 1,644 sumptuous costume designs for balls, ballets, masquerades, and operas given in France from the reign of François I to that of Louis XIV. Acquired in the late 19th century by Baron de Rothschild, they constitute an extraordinary resource for understanding the world of spectacle during the Ancien Régime.
The exhibition showcases a hundred of the finest pieces from this unique corpus, which will also be described, work by work, in the inventory of the Department of Prints and Drawings, accessible on arts-graphiques.louvre.fr.
Organised by:
Mickaël Bouffard, art historian, scientific and artistic co-director of the Théâtre Molière Sorbonne studio; Jérôme de la Gorce, art historian and musicologist, research director emeritus of the CNRS; Victoria Fernández Masaguer, documentalist at the Department of Prints and Drawings, Musée du Louvre.
Selected Works
Costumes de fêtes et de mascarades. Théâtre de Louis XIV - Berain, Jean I
Jean Berain, Costume pour le rôle titre de l’opéra « Thésée »
Entourage de Francesco Primaticcio, Costume de source sous un bosquet, vers 1540
Jean Berain, Costume de Sangaride dans« Atys », 1675
Jacques Bellange, Cavalier turc, entre 162 et 1616
Costumes de fêtes et de mascarades. Théâtre de Louis XIV
Henri Gissey, Égyptien jouant des gnacares, vers 1666
Daniel Rabel et atelier, Costume d’Apollon solaire ou d’un membre de sa suite, entre 1614 et 1634
Jean Berain, Costume pour une gorgone, vers 1682