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- Museum number
- K,57.99
- Title
- Object: Signora Baccelli, in the character of Creusa, in Medea & Jason
- Description
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Portrait of the ballerina Giovanna Baccelli in the character from Jean-George Noverre's ballet 'Jason and Medea', standing whole-length with arms outstretched, right hand higher and left lower, head directed to right but looking to front; wearing layered panniered dress with tassels on the skirt, crown with plumes, and curled wig, with long hair worn loose down the back and brushed forward over left hip; behind at left, pillar, at right, curtains; oval frame. 1782
Stipple with some etching
- Production date
- 1782
- Dimensions
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Height: 191 millimetres
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Width: 142 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1849,1003.100 (BM Satires 5910), a 1781 satire on Noverre's ballet with Giovanna Baccelli as Creusa, wearing an almost identical costume to this, also depicting Gaetano Vestris in the role of Jason and Mme Adelaide Simonet as Medea. See Curtis Price, Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, 'The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791', vol. 1 of 'Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London' (Oxford, 1995), pp. 455-57.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Jason and Medea (or, Medée et Jason)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- K,57.99