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Costume designs for Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, No 2. Julie Dorus-Gras as Marguerite, Adolphe Nourrit as Raoul, and Cornélie Falcon as Valentine, for the Académie Royale de Musique-Le Peletier performance that opened 29 February 1836. Watercolour; probably 210 x 310 mm (Gallica lists ranges when multiple objects are in a set. The exact description is: "aquarelle ; H. 120-210 x L. 080-310 mm - of which I'm presuming the smaller numbers refers to the single drawing. The crop is minimal.)

Date

1836

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Gallica

Author

Eugène Du Faget, restored by

Adam Cuerden
Description	British Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
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eugène Du Faget - Costume Designs For Les Huguenots - 2. Julie Dorus-Gras As Marguerite, Adolphe Nourrit As Raoul, And Cornélie Falcon As Valentine.jpg

Original file ‎(4,876 × 3,244 pixels, file size: 7.68 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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current	04:37, 5 February 2019	4,876 × 3,244 (7.68 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	04:22, 5 February 2019	4,876 × 3,244 (7.68 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	01:15, 5 February 2019	4,876 × 3,244 (7.68 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	02:50, 4 February 2019	4,861 × 3,266 (7.24 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Cropped 5 % horizontally, 7 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode. - Will be doing this properly when the restoration's done, but that might be a bit, so, eh?
	02:43, 4 February 2019	5,136 × 3,503 (5.21 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	02:18, 4 February 2019	5,136 × 3,503 (5.19 MB)	Adam Cuerden