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Fanny Elssler dancing the cracovienne

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1839

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New York Public Library

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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org//items/81249910-a3e0-0131-7f53-58d385a7b928

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Fanny Elssler performs a movement from her dance solo La cracovienne, saluting with her right hand as she extends her right leg in the position called à la seconde. Her costume as seen in this painting closely conforms to descriptions in contemporary reviews: a black military cap with white feather and cockade, two long plaits tied with red ribbons, a white tunic trimmed with buttons and braid, blue skirt, and scarlet boots with golden spurs, which reviewer Théophile Gautier likened to "a kind of castanets worn on the heels". Medium: paintings, watercolour. Album/Collection: Jerome Robbins Dance Division original artwork.

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From The New York Public Library

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Austria

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