Funding: Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Biographical/Historical: Russian-born ballerina Irina Baronova, 1919-2008, the former owner of this collection, was one of the "baby ballerinas" discovered by choreographer George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s. During the course of her career she danced with many of the most prominent ballet companies of the time, among them the Original Ballets Russes, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and Ballet Theatre, and appeared in films and musicals.
Acquisition: Purchase; Victoria Tennant, 2011.
Statement Of Responsibility: [signed on stone] E. Brown Jr.
Biographical/Historical: Fanny Elssler, known for the fire and sensuality she brought to the Romantic ballet of the 1830s-1850s, appears in her signature dance, the cachucha she arranged and performed in Jean Coralli's Le diable boiteux (music, Casimir Gide), first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1836. She danced the cracovienne, another of her famous character dances, in Joseph Mazilier's La gypsy (music, François Benoist, Ambroise Thomas, and Marco Aurelio Marliani) at the Paris Opéra in 1839.
Additional Physical Form: For another copy, see *MGZFB Els F Cac 26.

Physical Description

Lithographs
Extent: 1 print : lithograph, black & white ; 35 x 26 cm. or smaller.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b19758839
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 837e0c10-4dd9-013d-a924-0242ac110003

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1796

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Fanny Elssler in the character of La cachucha" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1796 - 1840. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/837e0c10-4dd9-013d-a924-0242ac110003

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1796 - 1840). Fanny Elssler in the character of La cachucha Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/837e0c10-4dd9-013d-a924-0242ac110003

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Fanny Elssler in the character of La cachucha" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/837e0c10-4dd9-013d-a924-0242ac110003

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