Stage Business

Eugène Devéria
Figaro
1834
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Eduard Engerth
Figaro Cycle
1865
watercolor and gouache on paper
(study for fresco, Vienna State Opera House)
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Édouard Vuillard
La Malade imaginaire of Molière
cs. 1912-13
oil on paper
(mural design for Théâtre des Champs-Élysées)
Kunsthalle Bremen

Karl Blechen
Stage Design - Alchemist's Laboratory
1826
ink and watercolor on paper
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Karl Blechen
Stage Design - Gothic Courtyard
1824
ink and watercolor on paper
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Josef Platzer
Stage Design - Palatial Interior
ca. 1785
ink and watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Giorgio Fuentes
Stage Design - Temple
ca. 1796-1800
ink and watercolor on paper
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Anonymous German Artist
Classical Costuming for Mlle. Raucourt
as Medea at the Comédie Française
ca. 1795
etching
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Emil Cardinaux
Outdoor Theater Season - Lucerne
1909
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Julius Klinger
Berliner Theater - Taifun
1910
gouache on paper (study for poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Emil Pirchan
Theatermuseum
Klara Ziegler Stiftung, München
1913
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
Clitie received by Frédéric
(scene from the comic opera Le Faucon
by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny after Boccaccio)
1772
watercolor and gouache on paper
Morgan Library, New York

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Daifilo and Granida
(scene from pastoral play Granida by Pieter Cornelisz Hooft)
ca. 1650-52
drawing
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Theater Box
1909
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Johann Esaias Nilson
Portrait of Catharina Helena Stöber
1775
etching
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Hans Thoma
Costume Study - Valkyrie
(for Wagner's Ring as staged at Bayreuth)
ca. 1894-96
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Botanist on Alp (No. 1)

Panoramas are not what they used to be. 
Claude has been dead a long time
And apostrophes are forbidden on the funicular.
Marx has ruined Nature,
For the moment.

For myself, I live by leaves,
So that corridors of clouds,
Corridors of cloudy thoughts,
Seem pretty much one:
I don't know what.

But in Claude how near one was
(In a world that was resting on pillars,
That was seen through arches)
To the central composition,
The essential theme.

What composition is there in all this:
Stockholm slender in a slender light,
An Adriatic riva rising,
Statues and stars,
Without a theme?

The pillars are prostrate, the arches are haggard,
The hotel is boarded and bare.
Yet the panorama of despair
Cannot be the specialty
Of this ecstatic air.

– Wallace Stevens (Ideas of Order, 1935)