File:Gilbert Duprez & Rosine Stoltz in Donizetti's La Favorite.jpg

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Summary

Description

English: Gilbert Duprez (1806-1896) as Fernando and Rosine Stoltz (1815-1903) as Leonor de Guzmán in Act IV of Gaetano Donizetti's La Favorite at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris in 1840-1841. Lithograph by Émile Desmaisons (1812-1880) after Gabriel Lépaulle (1804-1886), frontispiece to the first edition of the vocal score (Paris: Schlesinger, 1840).

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Date

between 1840 and 1841

Source

This file was derived from: Gilbert Duprez & Rosine Stoltz in Donizetti's La Favorite (400 dpi).png

Bibliothèque nationale de France

English: Ink spots removed, differences from alternate Harvard University copy (File:Mme Stoltz and M Duprez in La Favorite (4th act).jpg) were fixed to better resemble the less damaged version, scratches removed, mild distortion from paper not lying flat was fixed to square it up, levels and saturation tweaked; chromatic fringing removed.

Author



Alternative names	Pierre Émile Desmaisons; E. Desmaisons; Emilien Desmaisons; É.Desmaisons
Description	French lithographer and photographer
Date of birth/death	19 December 1812	28 January 1880
Location of birth/death	Paris	Montlignon
Authority file	: Q37036956 VIAF: 7659975 ISNI: 0000000119463863 ULAN: 500593490 LCCN: n97860380 NLA: 35142556 WorldCat



Alternative names	François Gabriel Guillaume Lépaulle, François G. G. Lépaulle
Description	French painter and costume designer
Date of birth/death	21 January 1804	1886
Location of birth/death	Versailles	Aÿ
Authority file	: Q709423 VIAF: 34720730 ISNI: 000000007729911X ULAN: 500031920 LCCN: n97875058 SUDOC: 168274477 WorldCat

Restored by

Adam Cuerden
Description	British Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Date of birth	8 June 1979
Location of birth	United States of America

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File:Gilbert Duprez & Rosine Stoltz in Donizetti's La Favorite (400 dpi).png - Original

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Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	13:16, 24 June 2016	2,972 × 3,656 (6.21 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Reverted to version as of 23:29, 16 July 2015 (UTC) DO NOT CROP Featured pictures, please.
	13:38, 10 March 2016	2,149 × 2,651 (4.66 MB)	Alonso de Mendoza	Cropped 28 % horizontally and 27 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.
	23:29, 16 July 2015	2,972 × 3,656 (6.21 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	17:54, 10 May 2013	2,191 × 2,700 (2.1 MB)	Robert.Allen	adjusted 400 DPI version
	10:02, 30 September 2010	338 × 416 (90 KB)	Mu	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Gilbert Duprez (1806-1896) as Fernando and Rosine Stoltz (1815-1903) as Leonor de Guzmán in Act IV of Gaetano Donizetti's ''La Favorite'' at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris in 1840-1841. Lithograph by Émile Desmaisons (1