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Don Quichotte[edit]

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Original – Poster by Georges Rochegrosse from the first Paris production of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte, at the Gaîté-Lyrique.
Reason
Been eying this one for a while. I really love Massenet's operas, so this was irresistable, and it's a high-resolution scan of a rather gorgeous 1910 artwork.
Articles in which this image appears
Don Quichotte, Georges Rochegrosse, Jules Massenet
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Culture,_entertainment,_and_lifestyle/Theatre
Creator
Georges Rochegrosse, with restoration by Adam Cuerden
  • Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:55, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support--Fauban 17:57, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, good picture. Brandmeistertalk 09:57, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - a high quality image with good educational value, both for the artist's style and the cultural depiction of its subject. Definitely an excellent addition to Don Quichotte. Voceditenore (talk) 09:57, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per Voceditenore, - wonder if it would also serve articles about the history of posters, and the opera house, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Georges Rochegrosse's poster for Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 15:56, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]