Cleo de Merode, French dancer of the Belle Époque. Photographs by Léopold Reutlinger, 1901 in costum
Cleo de Merode, French dancer of the Belle Époque. Photographs by Léopold Reutlinger, 1901 in costume from Rodolphe Darzens’s ballet-pantomime Lorenza, about Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini looking for the perfect model for his sculpture of Venus. (Which means that costume is supposed to look Renaissance Italian…)photo by Felix Nadarfrom Le Théâtre, décembre 1898Photograph by Charles Ogerau, 18951900 (La Cambodgienne) -- source link
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