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Salammbo by Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)
1896, 39 x 21.5 cm

 

Front cover of voice and piano score of E. Reyer's opera Salammbô, with composer's dedication and authograph.   Click on the top part to see the autograph enlarged.
(private collection: rdeh)

Rose Caron in the title role of Reyer's Salammbô... with Albert Saléza who sang the role of Matho.
source: Illustration of article "Rose Caron" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera

 

Rose Caron in the title role of Reyer's Salammbô
source: Le Theatre 1899 no 13, p 5
 

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"Salammbo chez Matho" bronze statue (1895) by Theodore Riviere (1857-1912)
(Source: http://www.franceantiq.fr/sna/udb/ - homepage of the Univers du Bronze gallery, Paris, France)

 

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The Hon. Mrs Algernon Bourke (1870-1967) as Salammbô... in costume for the Devonshire House Ball, London, 1897, costume by Alias of Soho Square

For more information about this photograph, i.e. a detailed Lafayette Collection catalogue form, click the buttons labeled "Mrs Bourke 1, 2 & 3" at the top of this page.

(Source: Terence Pepper, High Society: Photographs 1897-1914, London 1998, p 25
image copyright V&A Museum Picture Library

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Madamoiselle Bréval (Lucienne Bréval 1869-1935) as Salammbô
Line drawing from a photograph by Benque
Source: L'Illustration, Programme Cover 13 December 1899
 
 
Madamoisell Bréval as Salammbô
[image kindly provided by Paul Cechovic]

Detail - Salammbô, Le Festin des Merceinaires
Engraving by M.G. Janet

Source: Le Monde Illustré, Paris, May 1892


Madame Rose Caron dans le costume des noces, au dernier acte
Line drawing from a photograph by Benque

Source: L'Illustration, 31 May 1892, p 449

 

Madame Rose Caron, dans le 2e table de l'acte IV
Line drawing from a photograph by Benque

Source: L'Illustration, 31 May 1892, p 449