Marie Taglioni was the first star of the romantic ballet. It is considered the first master of the tip dance.
La Sylphide. The ballerina Marie Taglioni dancing the Flore.
Tag: Romanticism fashion
Romanticism costumes and fashion. Romantic era from 1800 to 1850.
Fanny Elssler dances the Cachucha, 1836
Fanny Elssler dances the Cachucha. Le Diable boiteux 1836. In the ballet, “the limping devil” by Casimir Gide.
Woman of the Islamic faith of the Druze 1830.
Woman of the Islamic faith of the Druze in 1830. Costumes historiques de ville ou de théatre et travestissements. Author: Achille Devéria and José Domínguez Bécquer.
Élisa Rachel Félix in the role of Roxane “Bajazet” by J. B. Racine.
Élisa Rachel Félix (1821-1858) was a French-Jewish actress and was one of the greatest tragediennes in their time.
Cornélie Falcon. Costume of Rachel in the opera “Jewess”.
Cornélie Falcon (1814–1897). In the picture it shows the Rachel in the opera La Juive, by Jacques Fromental Halévy.
Bouquetière Berne. Costume suisse. Flower seller.
Fleuriste. Canton of Bern. Switzerland costume. Costumes historiques par Achille Devéria
Costume Espagnol, Bolero. Spanish bolero dancers.
The bolero is a Spanish dance, which evolved from Contradanza and Sevillana.
Bullfighting Torero. Corridas de Toros en España.
In Spanish bullfighting, the corrida (“race”), the bullfighter is called torero (from toro = “bull”).
Espagnol corrida de toros. Spanish bullfighting.
The bullfight takes place in a bullring (Plaza de Toros), which usually serves this purpose exclusively.
French painter Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun 1755 -1842.
Madame Lebrun was a French painter of classicism. She is said to have been one of the most beautiful women of Paris at a young age.