Three Versions of L'Aiglon Ballet Victory 1400pc Ponda 100pc 2
For the theme of 'Music, Dance & Performance' here is a collage of three jigsaws showing scenes from the ballet L'Aiglon by Carlotta Edwards.
Top Left & Top Centre: Victory Gold Box Super Cut 1400pc L'Aiglon Ballet Scene by Carlotta Edwards, 36x24in, 1950s, bought in August 2021 from the estate of a Scottish seller. The ballet
Lower Left & Centre: Victory Gold Box Artistic 1400pc L'Aiglon Ballet by Carlotta Edwards, 36x24in, 1950s. I bought this one back in April 2014, but i have now traded up so this will be going to a friend once I've made up the super cut. You can see a 1200pc jigsaw like this on Jigasaurus
www.thejigasaurus.com/jigasaurus/v/victory/goldbox/l_aiglon/
Right Column: Ponda 100pc L'Aiglon Ballet Scene by Carlotta Edwards, 26x16cm the flat box is above the jigsaw. This jigsaw was also sold in May 2014.
Carlotta Edwards was the daughter of the French painter Ferdinand Pourrier. She is well know for her paintings of ballet scenes and exhibited at both the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Paris Salon. The Medici Society published many pints of her work and these are still widely available. In the 1950's framed copies of Carlotta Edward's prints were very popular. The 1950s saw an explosion of all things ballet in popular culture. Her ballet scenes once graced the bedrooms of little girls (and big) all over England but were very popular in Australia and New Zealand. Edwards appears to have based most of her pictures on photographs of popular British dancers.
www.fineartphotographyvideoart.com/2020/05/Carlotta-Edwar...
L'Aiglon is a play in six acts by Edmond Rostand based on the life of Napoleon II, who was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and his second wife, Empress Marie Louise. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" (a young eagle). The title role was created by Sarah Bernhardt in the play's premiere on 15 March 1900 at the Théàtre Sarah Bernhardt. In October of the same year, the play (in an English translation by Louis N. Parker) premiered at New York's Knickerbocker Theatre, with Maude Adams in the title role. Its first performance in London was at His Majesty's Theatre in 1901, with Bernhardt again playing the leading role. Rostand had written L'Aiglon specifically for Bernhardt, and it became one of her signature roles.
Clemence Dane made an English translation which was broadcast by the BBC on National Radio in 15 November 1936 and regionally the following day. Marius Goring performed the leading role in this production. Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert composed an opera in five acts, also with the title L'Aiglon, to a libretto by Henri Cain, based on Rostand's play. It was first performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1937.
Three Versions of L'Aiglon Ballet Victory 1400pc Ponda 100pc 2
For the theme of 'Music, Dance & Performance' here is a collage of three jigsaws showing scenes from the ballet L'Aiglon by Carlotta Edwards.
Top Left & Top Centre: Victory Gold Box Super Cut 1400pc L'Aiglon Ballet Scene by Carlotta Edwards, 36x24in, 1950s, bought in August 2021 from the estate of a Scottish seller. The ballet
Lower Left & Centre: Victory Gold Box Artistic 1400pc L'Aiglon Ballet by Carlotta Edwards, 36x24in, 1950s. I bought this one back in April 2014, but i have now traded up so this will be going to a friend once I've made up the super cut. You can see a 1200pc jigsaw like this on Jigasaurus
www.thejigasaurus.com/jigasaurus/v/victory/goldbox/l_aiglon/
Right Column: Ponda 100pc L'Aiglon Ballet Scene by Carlotta Edwards, 26x16cm the flat box is above the jigsaw. This jigsaw was also sold in May 2014.
Carlotta Edwards was the daughter of the French painter Ferdinand Pourrier. She is well know for her paintings of ballet scenes and exhibited at both the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Paris Salon. The Medici Society published many pints of her work and these are still widely available. In the 1950's framed copies of Carlotta Edward's prints were very popular. The 1950s saw an explosion of all things ballet in popular culture. Her ballet scenes once graced the bedrooms of little girls (and big) all over England but were very popular in Australia and New Zealand. Edwards appears to have based most of her pictures on photographs of popular British dancers.
www.fineartphotographyvideoart.com/2020/05/Carlotta-Edwar...
L'Aiglon is a play in six acts by Edmond Rostand based on the life of Napoleon II, who was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and his second wife, Empress Marie Louise. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" (a young eagle). The title role was created by Sarah Bernhardt in the play's premiere on 15 March 1900 at the Théàtre Sarah Bernhardt. In October of the same year, the play (in an English translation by Louis N. Parker) premiered at New York's Knickerbocker Theatre, with Maude Adams in the title role. Its first performance in London was at His Majesty's Theatre in 1901, with Bernhardt again playing the leading role. Rostand had written L'Aiglon specifically for Bernhardt, and it became one of her signature roles.
Clemence Dane made an English translation which was broadcast by the BBC on National Radio in 15 November 1936 and regionally the following day. Marius Goring performed the leading role in this production. Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert composed an opera in five acts, also with the title L'Aiglon, to a libretto by Henri Cain, based on Rostand's play. It was first performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1937.