margotfonteyns: Rest at the ballet school by Pierre Dubreuil, c. 1895 “Forty-two years ago, Pi
margotfonteyns: Rest at the ballet school by Pierre Dubreuil, c. 1895 “Forty-two years ago, Pierre Dubreuil, the distinguished Belgian photographer, who now, at seventy, still exhibits in Paris and London, made the charming picture opposite. Although it looks exceedingly modern–partly because of the compositional device of the ‘cello in the foreground and the ballet-girl in the background–it was photographed long before the moderns were influenced by close-ups in Russian movies: Dubreuil was merely influenced by Degas and his butterfly ballet-girls.” (Vogue, November 1, 1937) -- source link