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Jason et Medée Ballet tragique   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Francesco Bartolozzi

After: Nathaniel Dance
Published by: John Boydell
Title
Jason et Medée Ballet tragique
Description
English: Design in an oval. Gaetano Vestris as Jason between two ladies of the ballet. He staggers back, with an expression of horror facing Medea (right), who clutches a dagger. Behind him (left) the danseuse, in the role of Creusa, appears about to swoon. The dresses are interesting examples of theatrical costume. Jason wears a toupet wig, a tunic with a jewelled star on the breast, a cloak, and elaborately puffed trunk-hose. The ladies wear wide hooped and flounced petticoats, their hair dressed in a high pyramid with feathers. The background is architectural, at the back a high archway leads to a balcony backed by trees. Below the level of the stage and in the foreground are the heads and shoulders of three members of the orchestra, one (centre) plays a flute, the others play oboes. Below the design a line of music is engraved. 3 July 1781
Aquatint and etching
Depicted people Portrait of: Gaetano Apollino Baldassare Vestris
Date 1781
date QS:P571,+1781-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 405 millimetres
Width: 461 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1849,1003.100
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) A satire on the combination of tragic poses with the steps of the ballet. For Selwyn's opinion of the ballet see 'Hist. MSS. Comm., Carlisle MSS'. 1897, pp. 502-3. Its performance, 19 June 1781, was expected to be the last appearance of Vestris in London, ibid. This was actually not until 26 June 1781. For the Vestris see BMSat 5903-11. Cf. BMSat 6322. Similar in manner to BMSat 5905, 5906. Reproduced, Paston, Pl. lxxi.

The role of Creusa is here played by Giovanna Baccelli, who is also portrayed as Creusa in very similar costume in a 1782 print by Albanesi, after the theatrical portraitist James Roberts II (see K,57.99). This would suggest that the other actress depicted here is Mme Adelaide Simonet, the two actresses appearing in the cast given on a one-page summary of 'Medea and Jason' published with the opera 'Piramo e Tisbe' (BL 163.g.56). The cast appears again in a scenario published by G. Bigg (John Ward Collection, Harvard). 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.
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