[Dugazon] Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, aka

[Dugazon] Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, aka "Madame Dugazon". (1755 - 1821)

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Portrait Miniature

Fine and delicately hand-painted portrait miniature on thin porcelain, ca. 1810, of the French operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer. With two vertical cracks, set in a period oval-cut dark wood frame with inner brass rim.

After making her debut 1774 in Grétry's Sylvain, she became one of the great stars of the Comédie Italienne (which became the Opéra-Comique), and created over 60 roles. The two kinds of parts with which she was especially identified - young mothers and women past their first youth -are still called "jeunes dugazons" and "mères dugazons" in French opera. (5248)

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