Jean Marie Delattre and Jacques Esnaut & Michel Rapilly
Portrait of Marie-Theodore Thérèse Ruggieri, known as Mademoiselle Colombe
1761-1839
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- Artist: Jean Marie Delattre
- Publisher: Jacques Esnaut & Michel Rapilly
Portrait of Marie-Theodore Thérèse Ruggieri, known as Mademoiselle Colombe
1761-1839
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 290 × 220 mm. (11 7/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Plate: 200 × 145 mm. (7 7/8 × 5 11/16 in.)
Image: 160 × 115 mm. (6 5/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4383
Born in Venice, 1754. Became a member of the Comedie Italienne, 1773. Among the most celebrated demi-mondaines of the era. Under the stage name 'Colombe', the beautiful (and notorious) Venetian-born actresses made a sensation in late eighteenth-century Paris.
Inscribed: Recto: in plate: "Mlle. Colombe l'ainée / Pensionnaire du Roi / Reçue à la Comédie Italienne en 1773 / née a Venise le 29 8bre 1754"; "Dessinee d apres le Moine / Gravee par Delatre"; "A Paris ches Esnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques a la Ville de Coutances A. P. D. R."
Markings: CM: Claghorn
