Studio portrait of Vela Nigrinova in character as 'Marguerite Gautier'
Description
» next entryoverview« previous entry| Object: | Studio portrait of Vela Nigrinova in character as 'Marguerite Gautier' |
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| Description: | Half-length back shot of a woman in profile. She is wearing a tiara and a light-coloured, lace-trimmed dress and has a fur coat thrown over her left shoulder. |
| Comment: | Marguerite Gautier is a character in Alexandre Dumas, fils, novel 'La Dame aux camélias', which was adapted for the stage. Vela (Avgusta) Nigrinova (1862, Ljubljana - 1908, Belgrade) was the daughter of a father from Czechoslovakia and a Slovenian mother and was married to Davorin Jenko, a Slovenian composer and author of the Serbian national anthem 'Bože pravde'. Vela is considered the first great Serbian actress. For the major part of her acting career she lived in Belgrade and played in the Royal Serbian National Theatre. |
| Date: | 1894 |
| Location: | Belgrade |
| Country: | Serbia |
| Type: | Photograph |
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| Creator: | Jovanović, Milan, (Photographer) |
| Dimensions: | Artefact: 178mm x 129mm |
| Format: | Boudoir |
| Technique: | Not specified |
| Copyright: | Muzej Pozorišne Umetnosti Srbije |
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| Archive: | Museum of Theater Art of Serbia, Inv. No.: II-762 |
| License: | This picture is licensed under Creative Commons [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0] |
| Editor: | Ana Djordjevic |
| Permalink: | https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:vase.1436 |
