François-Joseph Bélanger - Set design for Gluck's Alceste - Original

Set design for the 1776 première of the French version of Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste. Note Hercules in the left foreground, wearing the lionskin that traditionally marks him; He did not appear in the original Italian libretto.

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1776

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