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Abd-el-Kader rendant visite au Prince-Président, dans sa loge, à la représentation extraordinaire donnée à l'Opéra, le 28 octobre 1852

Description:
A meeting between Napoléon III and Abd-el-Kader, an Algerian military figure best known for leading the resistance against French colonial invasion. He was detained in …
Year:
1852
Contributor:
Langs, Janet (creator)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Abd al-Qadir ibn Muyi al-Din > 1807?-1883 > Amir of Mascara
Napoleon > 1808-1873 > III, Emperor of the French
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Prints
Colonialism > Representation of Colonized Groups
Government and Politics > Political & governmental figures
Government and Politics > International Relations
1852-1870 (The Second Empire)
Local ID:
1-SIZE AP Il63 20
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

At the Opera Ball: (1835)

Description:
The men depicted in this plate wear relatively tight, dark-colored trousers, as was fashionable in the Romantic Period. Their coats are high waisted. According to …
Year:
1898
Contributor:
Courboin, François, 1865-1926 (illustrator)
Genre:
color wood engravings
Subject:
Fashion > France > Paris
Balls (Parties) > France > Paris
Opéra de Paris
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Prints
Social Life > Classes
Social Life > Entertainment
Social Life > Gender studies
Art > Fashion
1830-1848 (The July Monarchy)
Local ID:
1-SIZE GT887 .U8 1898
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Le cabaret du Lapin Blanc, rue aux Fèves

Description:
An exterior view of the Lapin Blanc cabaret, established in 1844 by a Gascon wine merchand named Mauras.
Year:
1875
Contributor:
Hoffbauer, 1839-1922 (creator)
Genre:
lithographs
Subject:
Lapin blanc (Cabaret : Paris, France)
Rue aux Fèves (Paris, France)
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) > France > Paris
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Prints
Social Life > Classes
Social Life > Entertainment
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
3-SIZE DC707.H691x 1875 v.1
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Entering the 'Comédie Française': (1828)

Description:
In this plate, two women are depicted going to the theater. Both women wear dresses with a lower, belted waistline, closer to the natural waist. …
Year:
1898
Contributor:
Courboin, François, 1865-1926 (illustrator)
Genre:
color wood engravings
Subject:
Fashion > France > Paris
Comédie-Française
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Prints
Social Life > Entertainment
Art > Fashion
1815-1830 (The Restoration)
Local ID:
1-SIZE GT887 .U8 1898
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Entrée du théâtre des Variés sur le boulevard.

Description:
A sketch of a busy night at the Variétés Theater on the Montmartre Boulevard. The sketch shows elegant women and men waiting to get into …
Year:
1889
Contributor:
Vitu, Auguste Charles Joseph, 1823-1891 (creator)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Théâtre des Variés (Paris, France)
Theaters > France > Paris
Architecture > Theaters
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
2-SIZE DC707 .V5
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Le Grand escalier de l'Opéra

Description:
A view of the Garnier Opera's main stairs.
Year:
1889
Contributor:
Vitu, Auguste Charles Joseph, 1823-1891 (creator)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Opéra de Paris
Architecture > Theaters
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
2-SIZE DC707 .V5
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

In front of the Ambigu Theatre: (1861)

Description:
The man on the left wears wide-legged, loose-fitting pants and a coat with no waist and buttoned high to the neck. The woman is wearing …
Year:
1898
Contributor:
Courboin, François, 1865-1926 (illustrator)
Genre:
color wood engravings
Subject:
Fashion > France > Paris
Theaters > France > Paris
Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique (Paris, France)
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Prints
Art > Fashion
1852-1870 (The Second Empire)
Local ID:
1-SIZE GT887 .U8 1898
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Napoléon III and Haussmann with Garnier at Opéra

Description:
When Napoléon III ordered the construction of a new Opéra in 1860, he organized a contest in which the winning architectural proposal would serve as …
Year:
1864
Contributor:
Gilis, E. (artist)
Garnier, Charles, 1825-1898 (architect)
Subject:
Garnier, Charles, 1825-1898
Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891
Napoléon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873
Opéra (Paris, France)
Architecture > Monuments
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Paintings
City Planning > Construction
Government and Politics > Political & governmental figures
1852-1870 (The Second Empire)
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

The new 'foyer' at the Théâtre Français: Portrait of Mme de R. in 1863.

Description:
This plate depicts a woman in a cream-colored dress with a fairly wide crinoline. She wears a deep purple mantle made of velvet and a …
Year:
1898
Contributor:
Courboin, François, 1865-1926 (illustrator)
Genre:
color wood engravings
Subject:
Fashion > France > Paris
Theaters > France > Paris
Comédie-Française
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Prints
Art > Fashion
1852-1870 (The Second Empire)
Local ID:
1-SIZE GT887 .U8 1898
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Opéra-Foyer du public

Description:
The Opera foyer, with the public intermingling. The scene is probably of one of the numerous balls that Vitu has just described in the previous …
Year:
1890
Contributor:
Vitu, Auguste Charles Joseph, 1823-1891 (editor)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Opéra de Paris
Architecture > Theaters
Social Life > Entertainment
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
2-SIZE DC707 .V5
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Le palais des illusions [1]

Description:
The "palais des illusions" was a major attraction at the 1900 Paris world fair. It was a very large hall covered with mirrors, and designed …
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)
Optical illusions
Architecture > Monuments
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Prints
Social Life > Entertainment
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
No call number
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Le palais des illusions [2]

Description:
The "palais des illusions" was a major attraction at the 1900 Paris world fair. It was a very large hall covered with mirrors, and designed …
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)
Optical illusions
Architecture > Monuments
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Prints
Social Life > Entertainment
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
No call number
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Le palais du Trocadéro

Description:
Palais du Trocadéro during the 1878 Paris World Fair. This view is taken from the place du Trocadéro, which was not the main facade of …
Year:
1878
Contributor:
Trichon (creator)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Paris Universal Exposition of 1878
Architecture > Monuments
Architecture > Theaters
Social Life > Entertainment
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
2-SIZE T802.B1 E87x 1878
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Le palais du Trocadéro: Façade sur la place du Roi-de-Rome

Description:
Facade of the Trocadéro Palace. The Trocadéro had been designed specifically for the 1878 fair by the architects Davioud and Bourdais. The building had three …
Year:
1879
Contributor:
Trichon (creator)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Paris Universal Exposition of 1878
Architecture > Monuments
Architecture > Theaters
Social Life > Entertainment
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
2-SIZE T802.C1 E9x 1879
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Le palais du Trocadéro: Vue du promenoir

Description:
The Palais du Trocadéro had been constructed for the 1878 World Fair by Davioud and Bourdais. The building had three parts: the monumental central rotunda …
Year:
1889
Contributor:
Langlois (creator)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Palais du Trodadéro (Paris, France)
Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France)
Architecture > Monuments
Architecture > Theaters
Social Life > Entertainment
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
1-SIZE T803.B1 H83x 1889
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Pardon monsieur, les armes au vestiaire !

Description:
A Prussian soldier walks into an exposition with his weapons as a woman explains that he must leave them with her in the coatroom.
Year:
1868
Contributor:
Cham, 1819-1879 (lithographer)
Subject:
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 > Caricatures and cartoons
Architecture > Theaters
Social Life > Entertainment
Art > Caricatures and Satires
1852-1870 (The Second Empire)
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Paris en 1871

Description:
  • Album of 20 tinted lithographs (single tint, various shades of fawn) depicting principally buildings, etc. damaged or destroyed in the suppression of the Paris Commune, …
Contributor:
Véron, Alexandre René, 1826-1897 (creator)
Subject:
Paris (France > Buildings, structures, etc > Pictorial works
Paris (France) > History > Commune, 1871 > Pictorial works
Paris (France) > Description and travel > Pictorial works
France > Paris
Architecture > Dwellings
Architecture > Monuments
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Prints
Government and Politics > Uprisings
Government and Politics > Wars
1870-1871 (War, Siege, the Commune)
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Paris, l'Opéra, Académie nationale de musique

Description:
A view of the front of the Opera de Paris, 9th Arrondissement, Paris
Year:
1880
Genre:
photographs
Subject:
Opera de Paris
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Photographs
Social Life > Entertainment
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Pavillon des forêts: Le panorama de la combe de Péguerre

Description:
This print represents the Pavilion des forêts, which was a building entirely made of wood, and dedicated to France's fauna and flora. The insert picture …
Year:
1889
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France)
Diorama > France > Paris
Architecture > Theaters
Social Life > Entertainment
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
1-SIZE T803.B1 H83x 1889
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Place du Châtelet et Pont au Change (1876)

Description:
"The Place du Châtelet takes its name from the ancient fortress, Le Grand Châtelet, that was constructed to guard the Pont au Change. It was …
Year:
1875
Contributor:
Hoffbauer, 1839-1922 (creator)
Benoist, Philippe, b. 1813 (lithographer)
Genre:
lithographs
Subject:
Place du Châtelet (Paris, France)
Pont au change (Paris, France)
Architecture > Bridges & waterways
Architecture > Monuments
Architecture > Theaters
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
3-SIZE DC707 .H691x 1875 v.1
Collection:
Brown University Library
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

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