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Opéra Comique at the Théâtre Italien

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Klaus Neiiendam
Klaus Neiiendam
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Klaus Neiiendam isProfessor of Drama, Det Teatervidenskabelige Institut, University of Copenhagen.
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In 1976 a drawing, today at the Bibliothèque Nationale, by the French artist, Pierre Alexandre Wille (1748–1821) was published in Theatre Research International. The picture is signed and dated: ‘P. A. Wille filius del 1767’ and depicts a performance in the Hôtel de Bourgogne, at that time called the Théâtre Italien or the Comédie Italienne. But the drawing has not yet been analysed, nor has the artist's motif been identified. [Plate I]

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Theatre Research International , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , Spring 1988 , pp. 44 - 48
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1988

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Notes

1. Barlow, Graham: ‘The Hôtel de Bourgogne According to Sir James Thorhill’ in Theatre Research International, vol. I. no. 2, 1972 p. 86ff. Plate VI.Google Scholar

2. Thieme-Becker, : Allgemeines Lexikon der bildende Künstler. Herausgegeben von Hans Vollmer, vol. 26, p. 12 ff. Leipzig 1947.Google Scholar

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11. Dumont, , op. cit.Google Scholarde Saint-Aubin, Gabriel's water-colour seems relatively unknown in European art history. For example, the picture is not mentioned in Emile Dacier's fundamental work: Gabriel Saint-Aubin. I–II. Paris 1929–1931.Google Scholar

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