Louis PÉCOUR / Fine large half-length engraving of this important 1700

Description

Fine large half-length engraving of this important choreographer and dancing master by François Chereau (1680-1729) after Robert Tournières (1667-1752)
Author:
PÉCOUR, Louis 1653-1729
Title:
Fine large half-length engraving of this important choreographer and dancing master by François Chereau (1680-1729) after Robert Tournières (1667-1752)
Publication:
Paris: [ca. 1700]
Description:
Pécour is depicted seated at a table with an open book of dances in Feuillet notation. 417 x 294 mm.
Slightly worn and soiled; minor creasing to area with letters below image; trimmed to just within plate mark. Laid down to backing paper.
Credited with 120 original choreographies, most for the theatre but many for social dancing, "[Pécour] was one of the finest dancers working under the celebrated royal choreographer Pierre Beauchamp. He is said in one source to have made his début as a dancer in a repeat performance of Lully's Cadmus et Hermione in 1674. When, on Lully's death in 1687, Beauchamp left the Opéra, Pécour was appointed in his place. He gave up dancing in about 1703 but he held the post of ballet-master and choreographer at the Opéra until his death. His tutelage produced such outstanding dancers as La Fontaine, Subligny, Guiot, Prevost and Menese among the women and Blondy, Ballon, Dumoulin and Marcel among the men. He is credited with changing the 'S' figure of the Minuet to a 'Z', an innovation that helped keep the dancers in a proper relationship to each other and to the figure." Meredith Ellis Little in Grove Music Online.
Seller ID:
23413
Subject:
Art & Photographs
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