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Beauty in riding habits. Late 1880s
Selika Lazevski photographed by Felix Nadar in 1891.
This image was floating around Tumblr at the end of last year and I thought I’d do my part to share more information about the identity of this mysterious horsewoman.
Her name is Selika Lazevski she was photographed by Felix Nadar in 1891.
This image is likely to have been taken from Documents 4 a Surrealist art magazine edited by Georges Bataille, published in Paris in 1929, were she is credited as Mademoiselle Lovzeski.
But thats about it!
SusannaForrest.wordpress.com sheds more light on the possible origins of her name.”Sélika was the name of the heroine of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s 1865 opera, L’Africaine, and was adopted as a stage name by the first Black woman to sing at the White House, the coloratura soprano Madame Marie Selika Williams. According to this site, the opera was hugely popular among African Americans, and Selika became a fashionable name.”
Some more Nadar photos of Selika on the French Ministry of Culture’s archive database:
Photo credit: Ministère de la Culture (France)
Photo credit: Ministère de la Culture (France)
References:
Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s by Petrine Archer Straw
More photos: Ministère de la Culture (France)
http://susannaforrest.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/whos-that-lady/
http://ridingaside.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/more-informationa-dn-pictures.html
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http://carolathhabsburg.tumblr.com/post/11990607230/beauty-in-riding-clothes-s-background-history
