Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/La Navarraise

La Navarraise

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Original – Poster for Jules Massenet's La Navarraise, showing Emma Calvé in the role of Anita. The piece was originally performed in London, Calvé reprised her role from that production for this poster's performance, the French première at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique on 3 October 1895

Reason: A fine image. Does have some of that unrecapturable "new technology is cool" thing - in this case, being able to print photos big, which I believe was very, very new at the time, and hence this probably looked far cooler back then. It's like Fred Ott's Sneeze or how Final Fantasy VII's low-poly 3D character models did not look like total crap at the time. Anyway, this has held up better than a lot of those, and I think Calvé's acting talent is a big reason for it: her pose and expression really sums up her role.
Articles in which this image appears: La Navarraise
FP category for this image: WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator: Reutlinger family; restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.7% of all FPs} 03:16, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geoffroi (talk) 03:54, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Supp --LLcentury (talk) 13:40, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 16:45, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. As well as the EV for this performance itself, it appears to have historic value as an early large-format photographic poster. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:49, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- @David Eppstein: Honestly, the sources for photography in posters - that are found in a quick Google search - all seem to claim the practice started decades later. E.g. [1] claims it started in the 1920s Soviet Union, and [2] credits them and, I think, the Dadaist school. One suspects such people forgot that theatrical posters existed before film. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.7% of all FPs} 02:36, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulp here 14:37, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 06:10, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Poster for Jules Massenet's La Navarraise with Emma Calvé in the rôle of Anita.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:17, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]