Color lithograph workshop print on tint, 320 g paper/cardboard; 35 x 27 cm in light passe - partout 48 x 39 cm; signed on plate. P.d. "Maurice Leloir"; publisher - Libraire Furne; lithographs were made by Cueille et Bouche.
The ballet of this title lasted 13 hours at the royal court and was intended to empower Louis XIV, who was only 15 years old when he ascended the throne. Louis appeared in the ballet in the role of the Sun and has since borne just such a nickname. The presented lithograph explains the genesis of the king's famous designation to our time as the Sun, rather than as Louis XIV.
Maurice Leloir - was a French illustrator, watercolorist, draughtsman, printmaker, writer and collector. The son and pupil of painter Auguste Leloir and watercolorist Héloïse Suzanne Colin, daughter of painter Alexandre Colin, he exhibited his paintings and watercolors from 1876 at the Paris Salon and later at the Salon des Artistes Françaises, of which he became a member. He participated with many other painters in the Crozant School in the Creuse valleys. Around 1890, Maurice Leloir and his students flooded the bookstore market with illustrated works inspired by photographs, faithfully depicting the costumes and attitudes of the past, which were highly prized by bibliophiles.
In 1884, Guy de Maupassant dedicated his short story Idyll to Leloir .
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