File:François-Joseph Bélanger - Set design for Gluck's Alceste.png

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Description

Set design for the 1776 première of the French version of Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste. Note Hercules in the left foreground, wearing the lionskin that traditionally marks him; He did not appear in the original Italian libretto. Hercules appears in Act III, which marks this as Act III.

Date

1776

Source

Gallica

Author



Description	French architect, decorator and drawer student of Julien-David Le Roy (location: Académie Royale d'Architecture), student of Pierre Contant d'Ivry (location: Académie Royale d'Architecture)
Date of birth/death	12 April 1744	1 May 1818
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	Paris and its surroundings
Authority file	: Q327715 VIAF: 49256807 ISNI: 0000000083806755 ULAN: 500019469 LCCN: nr92001984 WGA: b/belanger WorldCat

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Adam Cuerden
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Location of birth	United States of America

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