Press illustration of La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein 1867 - Gallica 2011 (adjusted)

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Press illustration of La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein 1867 - Gallica 2011 (adjusted)

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Press illustration of Act 1 of the premiere of Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris on 12 April 1867 from L'univers illlustré (27 April 1867)
Français : Illustration d'Édouard Riou parue dans L'Univers illustré le 27 avril 1867, illustrant le premier acte de la représentation de l'opérette d'Offenbach La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein donnée au Théâtre des Variétés, à Paris, le 12 avril 1867.

Edouard Riou (1833–1900) was a French painter and illustrator who illustrated six novels by Jules Verne, as well as several other well-known works. Riou was born in 1833 in Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, and studied under Charles-François Daubigny and Gustave Doré, graduating in 1859. Apart from engravings, his artistic specialties included landscape painting and commemorative art (including works for the opening of the Suez Canal and the marriage of a daughter of the Czar)

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