Dumeunier par Dumeunier

Fernand Dumeunier (1899-1968) ~ Portrait of Ms. Dumeunier # 1, Belgium, ca. 1930 | src anamorfose
Fernand Dumeunier (1899-1968) ~ Portrait of Ms. Dumeunier # 2, Belgium, ca. 1930 | src anamorfose

Marion Morgan dancers by Genthe

Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancers, 1914-1927. Nitrate negative (detail)
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancers, 1914-1927. Nitrate negative | src Library of Congress
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancers [from out of the shadows], 1920s | src david pollack

French postcards · 1920s

French vintage postcard (1920s)
French vintage postcard, 1920s | src eBay via Flickr

Sur la plage par Frères Lumière

Frères Lumière :: Sur la plage. A daring photograph for its time of a woman in a see-through dress on a beach. France, 1907-1915. | src Alamy
Frères Lumière :: Sur la plage. A daring photograph for its time of a woman in a see-through dress on a beach. France, 1907-1915. | src Alamy
Lumière Brothers :: Untitled early Autochrome of a woman in a silk dress standing on rocks. France, 1907-1915. | src liveauctioneers
Lumière Brothers :: Untitled early Autochrome of a woman in a silk dress standing on rocks. France, 1907-1915. | src liveauctioneers

The Sleeping Beauty by Crooke

William Crooke :: The Sleeping Beauty. The Amateur Photographer & Photographic News, vol. LII, 1352, p. 210, 1910. (The Royal Photographic Society's Annual Exhibition, London)
William Crooke :: The Sleeping Beauty. The Amateur Photographer & Photographic News, vol. LII, 1352, p. 210, 1910. (The Royal Photographic Society's Annual Exhibition, London) Musée Nicéphore Niépce
William Crooke :: The Sleeping Beauty. The Amateur Photographer & Photographic News, vol. LII, 1352, p. 210, 1910. (The Royal Photographic Society’s Annual Exhibition, London) | src Musée Nicéphore Niépce
William Crooke :: The Sleeping Beauty. The Amateur Photographer & Photographic News, vol. LII, 1352, p. 210, 1910. (The Royal Photographic Society's Annual Exhibition, London) | src Musée Niépce
William Crooke :: The Sleeping Beauty. The Amateur Photographer & Photographic News, vol. LII, 1352, p. 211, 1910. (The Royal Photographic Society’s Annual Exhibition, London) | src Musée Niépce

Vera Sabina in Sylphide, 1927

Ritratto fotografico della ballerina Vera Savina (Vera Clark) in costume di scena per il balletto Sylphide, 1927. | src Libreria antiquaria Gonelli
Ritratto fotografico della ballerina Vera Savina (Vera Clark) in costume di scena per il balletto Sylphide, 1927. | src Libreria antiquaria Gonelli

Al verso della fotografia timbri della ‘Casa d’Arte Bragaglia’ e della ‘Rivista Popolo d’Italia’, insieme ad una annotazione manoscritta, parzialmente errata, nella quale si legge il nome della Savina.

La celebre ballerina inglese (Vera Clark, in arte Savina) lavorò a Mosca nel corpo di ballo dei Ballets Russes di Diaghilev e sposò Léonide Massine (Myasin), altro grande coreografo russo. È ripresa seduta nell’atto in indossare una scarpetta. L’acconciatura, il costume di scena, il gioiello ed il bracciolo della sedia corrispondono esattamente a quelli con cui la ritrasse il pittore scozzese Herbert James Gunn nel quadro ‘Sylphide‘ (1927 – collezione privata).

On the back of the photograph, stamps of the ‘Casa d’Arte Bragaglia’ and ‘Rivista Popolo d’Italia’, together with a handwritten annotation, partially incorrect, in which the name of Savina can be read.

The famous English dancer (Vera Clark, aka Savina) worked in Moscow in the ballet troupe of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and married Léonide Massine (Myasin), another great Russian choreographer. She is shown sitting in the act of wearing a shoe. The hairstyle, the stage costume, the jewel and the armrest of the chair correspond exactly to those with which the Scottish painter Herbert James Gunn portrayed her in the painting ‘Sylphide‘ (1927 – private collection).

The Silver Mask, 1929

Gordon Coster :: The Silver Mask, 1929 src liveauctioneers
Gordon Coster :: The Silver Mask, 1929. Bromide print. | src liveauctioneers

Bromide print mounted on artist’s paper. Signed and titled in pencil on mount recto. Nine exhibition labels and two exhibition stamps on verso. The subject is wearing a half mask, a headdress (probably made of velvet) adorned in the middle with a flower-shaped ornament and a huge fluffy collar. He/she wears heavy lipstick and a drawn mole. This is a striking enigmatic picture. It is not clear whether this is a man or a woman.

Draped woman by Van Buren

Amelia C. Van Buren :: [Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil]; 1917 (?). Platinum print mounted on black mat. Color film copy transparency of the original. LC-USZC4-9380 | src L. of Congress
Amelia C. Van Buren :: [Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil]; 1917 (?). Platinum print mounted on black mat. Color film copy transparency of the original. LC-USZC4-9380 | src L. of Congress
Amelia C. Van Buren :: [Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil]; 1917 (?). Platinum print on Rembrandt mount. Color film copy slide of the original. LC-USZC4-9108 | src L. of Congress
Amelia C. Van Buren :: [Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil]; 1917 (?). Platinum print on Rembrandt mount. Color film copy slide of the original. LC-USZC4-9108 | src L. of Congress
Amelia C. Van Buren :: [Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil]; 1917 (?). Platinum print mounted on black mat. Color film copy slide of the original. LC-USZC2-5993 | src L. of Congress
Amelia C. Van Buren :: [Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil]; 1917 (?). Platinum print mounted on black mat. Color film copy slide of the original. LC-USZC2-5993 | src L. of Congress

The Library of Congress owns two impressions of this photograph: 1-a (top and bottom) and 1-b (middle). Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift of Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948.

Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith … France : Musée d’Art Américain Giverny … 2001, p. 177.

Exhibited: Ambassadors of progress, 2001-2003

all information is from the Library of Congress

Bea Egerváry von Manassé

Atelier Manassé ~ Flexible like a blade made of precious steel (The dancer Rea [sic] Egerváry)
Scherl’s Magazin, Band 5, Heft 12, Dezember 1929
Atelier Manassé ~ Biegsam wie eine Klinge aus edlem Stahl (Die Tänzerin Bea Egerváry)
Scherl’s Magazin, Band 5, Heft 12, Dezember 1929 [full page]