    
Title: Emma Livry Description: Emma Livry (1842-1863), French ballet dancer, performing in La Sylphide; the 16-year-old girl was one of the last ballerinas of the Romantic ballet era; she was the protégé of Marie Taglioni and her spectacular career ended prematurely and tragically in November 1862, when, while rehearsing for an opera, her heavily garmented ballet dress caught fire from a nearby stage gaslight, causing her terrible burns that took her life eight months later; artists; ballerinas; ballet; dance; Location: Paris, France, 1859: Keywords: dancers, dresses, operas, performing arts Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1350 x 1680 (2.27 MPixels) (1.24) Print Size: 11.4 x 14.2 cm; 4.5 x 5.6 inches File Size: 6.50 MB (6,810,946 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095558 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
