Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit drama in La Belle Époque

[David Mellins]

This is amazing, a Matthew, who would have thought?
!

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 26, 2019, at 9:33 AM, Rocher, Rosane D via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> 
> 
> Lovely!  Thank you. 
> 
> Rosane
> 
>> On 10/26/19 8:38 AM, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY wrote:
>> Dear Indologists,
>> 
>> You may find this to be amusing. 
>> 
>> Visiting the huge exhibition of the works of Toulouse-Lautrec currently on view at the Grand Palais in Paris, I was surprised to find, amidst his many posters for theater and cabaret, the one I include here, for a production of the 
>> Mṛcchakaṭikā, - the title is even given in devanagari at lower right. If you read carefully, you'll see that TL himself is credited with the sets for the fifth act, though I do not know if any trace of these survives, or if it was photographed. They must have been wonderful!
>> 
>> <IMG_1488.JPG>
>> 
>> 
>> Matthew Kapstein
>> Directeur d'études, 
>> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>> 
>> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
>> The University of Chicago
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> INDOLOGY mailing list
>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info
>> indology-owner at list.indology.info (messages to the list's managing committee)
>> http://listinfo.indology.info (where you can change your list options or unsubscribe)
> _______________________________________________
> INDOLOGY mailing list
> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info
> indology-owner at list.indology.info (messages to the list's managing committee)
> http://listinfo.indology.info (where you can change your list options or unsubscribe)


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology/attachments/20191026/95e4feb9/attachment.htm>