HENRI GABRIEL IBELS French, 1867-1893 A Rehearsal at the Folies-Bergère Lithograph, 1893 Ackland Fund, 83.15.1
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REHEARSAL AT THE FOLIES-BERGÈRE
"all around, restless, bewildered, breathless, and purple-faced, are mothers, mothers, and yet more mothers...embracing [their daughters] with the words, 'Go my child, take care of your pointes, hold your shoulders back, think of your mother, and of your father too, who will curse me and box your ears if you do not get your 800 francs today.'" Ludovic
Havély, novelist, librettist and friend of Degas
Cited in Robert Herbert, Impressionism, 115 RELATED LINKS Folies-Bergère Website in French of the Folies-Bergère, including history, dining information, and archives. |