CABINET 2: THE BEAUTIFUL CLEO DE MERODE-FRENCH BALLET DANCER & COURTESAN for Sale

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CABINET 2: THE BEAUTIFUL CLEO DE MERODE-FRENCH BALLET DANCER & COURTESAN For Sale

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CABINET 2: THE BEAUTIFUL CLEO DE MERODE-FRENCH BALLET DANCER & COURTESAN:
$495.00

CABINET 2:THE BEAUTIFUL CLEOPATRA MERODE: FRENCH BALLET DANCER & COURTESAN. VERTICAL LINE TOP DUE TO SCANNER.I HAVE DECIDED TO SELL MY COLLECTION FEATURING WOMEN OF LA BELLE EPOQUE. IT INCLUDES 36 CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FAMOUS SUPERSTARS OF THE TIME----CLEO DE MERODE (4), LIANE DE POUGY (10 CABINETS), LA BELLE OTERO (10 CABINETS), EMILIENNE D\'ALENCON (6 CABINETS), AND LINA CAVALIERI (6 CABINETS). I WILL BE LISTING THEM INDIVIDUALLY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS--ALL ARE IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION AS I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN QUITE PARTICULAR IN ACQUIRING THE MOST PERFECT IMAGES POSSIBLE.
SHIPPING IN THE USA WILL BE $5. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING WILL BE VIA \'S GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM.
Cléopatra Diane de Mérode(27 September 1875 – 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of theBelle Époque.

She was born in Paris, the daughter of Austrian landscape artist Carl (also Karl) Freiherr von Merode (1853–1909).[2][3]At the age of eight, Cléo was sent tostudy danceand made her professional debut at age eleven.

Cléo de Mérode became renowned for her glamour even more than for her dancing skills, and her image began appearing on such things as postcards and playing cards. A particular new hairstyle she chose to wear became the talk of Parisian women and was quickly adopted as a popular style for all. Her fame was such thatAlexandre FalguièresculptedThe Dancerin her image, which today can be seen in theMusée d\'Orsay. In 1895,Henri de Toulouse-Lautrecdid her portrait, as wouldCharles Puyo,Alfredo Muller, andGiovanni Boldini. Her picture was taken by some of the most illustrious photographers of the day, includingFélix Nadar.

In 1896,King Léopold IIattended the ballet and saw Mérode dance. The 61-year-oldBelgianKing became enamoured with the 22-year-old ballet star, and gossip started that she was his latest mistress. Because the King had had two children with a woman reputed to be a prostitute, Cléo de Mérode\'s reputation suffered, and she had tolivewith it for the rest of her life. Nevertheless, Cléo de Mérode became an international star, performing across Europe and in the United States. At the peak of her popularity, she chose to dance at theFolies Bergère, taking the risk to do something other elites of the ballet had never done before. Her performance gained her a whole new following.[citation needed]

Very popular in her ancestral homeland of Austria as well as in Germany, her character appeared in the German filmWomen of Passion(1926), played byFern Andra. InVienna, her beauty caught the attention of painterGustav Klimt, whoseprimary focuswas on female sexuality. Their story was the basis of the filmKlimt(2006), in which the character \"Lea de Castro\" is based on Cléo de Mérode.[citation needed]

Mérode continued to dance until her early fifties, when she retired to the seaside resort ofBiarritzin thePyrénées-Atlantiquesdépartement of France. In 1955, she published her autobiography,Le Ballet de ma vie(The Dance of My Life).

Cléo de Mérode died in 1966 and was interred in the Père LachaiseCemeteryin Paris in Division 90. A statue of her, mourning her mother, who is interred in the same plot, decorates the gravestone.