Louis Pécour

Chereau, François, the elder (1680-1729)

Levrac-Tournières, Robert (1667-1752) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

early 18th century

Height:

35.9 cm  (14 1/8 in.)

Width:

28.3 cm  (11 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

line engraving on paper

Description

Portrait of Baroque ballet dancer and dancing master Louis Pécour, holding an open book with legible Feuillet choreographic notation and a dancing tune in musical staff notation. Inscription: "Louis Pecour Pensionaire du Roi, Compositeur des Balets de l 'Academie Royalle de Musique, et Maitre a Danser de Mad. La Duchesse de Bourgogne"

People as subjects

Pécour, Guillaume Louis (1653-1729) (Dancer)

Iconclass

48C822
choreographer
48C8311
portrait of dancer

Musical works

legible music notation
tune in open dancing master book

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5787