‎Cornilliet‎

‎CORNILLIET Jules and Abel BRUN.‎

‎Binding title: Album costumes de théatre originaux.France ca. 1860. Small folio 32.5 x 27.5 cm. Album with 178 watercolours and gouaches and 3 prints 2 lithographs and 1 engraving mounted on 195 leaves numbered in pencil. Including 73 signed by Jules Cornilliet 66 signed by Abel Brun 1 signed "Happel" and 1 "Stop" pseudonym of Louis Morel-Retz most of the others clearly matching those of Cornilliet and Brun. Near contemporary black half sheepskin.‎

‎Substantial collection of original 19th-century designs for French theatre costumes. The designs can be roughly divided into the realistic and contemporary designs of Jules Cornilliet and the fantastic and humorous designs by Abel Brun; these include historical oriental satirical and allegorical costumes and costumes for specific types of theatre ballet drama operetta. While Cornilliet often uses simple but colourful and effective designs Brun's designs are extravagant like the pompously dressed-up noblemen "Le Prince Kolibrikiki" absurd like the doctor "Un Porte-Seringue" who is carrying an enormous syringe on his side and monstrous like the tailed blue and hairy beast "Le Scorpion". The designs were most likely used for the fabrication of the costumes as they often include notes concerning the fabric and colours. We weren't able to match the costumes to any plays but further research could be worthwhile.Most of the watercolours and gouaches are by either Jules Cornilliet 1830-1886 or Abel Brun. The latter is solely known from his art including designs for colourful advertisements from the late 19th and early 20th century. The French painter Cornilliet was a pupil of Ary Scheffer 1795-1858 and Horace Vernet 1789-1863 who made his Salon debut in 1857. Both made more costume designs surviving in a few similar less substantial albums located in the Bibliothèque nationale. A couple of the drawings with an unidentified owner's stamp. Possibly lacking some plates as 14 numbered pages are left blank but no traces of removal are found. Some occasional spots and smudges otherwise in very good condition.l For Cornilliet: Bénézit III p. 177; Thieme & Becker VII p. 443; both Cornilliet and Brun not in Colas; Hiler; Lipperheide. unknown‎

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