IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 226559 accession number: P.15016-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 27 February 2019 updated: Monday 3 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Scene from Act II of _Les Troyens à Carthage_ (first performed in 1863), the second part of Hector Berlioz's grand opera in five acts, _Les Troyens_ ['The Trojans'] (1856-8). See Notes. Six female figures wearing classical drapery are dancing in a grove of trees beside a round temple. The central figure is illuminated and holds some drapery above her head. Another figure facing left brandishes a thyrsus. A sixth figure watches the rest of the group seated on the ground at the far right. Hédiard, who identifies the subject as from 'acte II' of '_Les Troyens_' describes the location of the scene as the Gardens of Didon [Dido] at twilight after the storm ('Les Jardins de Didon; ... Crépuscule après l'orage'). title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/226559 CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1893 - 1893 creation date earliest: 1893 creation date latest: 1893 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Fantin-Latour, Henri EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Society of Three: Alphonse Legros, Henri Fantin-Latour, James McNeill Whistler