And in greater detail . . .

This detail of Kaulbach's portrait was also popular.

Russian postcard published by Richard. F.A. Kaulbach: Guerrero.

Russian postcard published by Richard. FA Kaulbach is misidentified. Hermann Kaulbach: Guerrero

Anonymous Russian postcard

Russian postcard. Kaulbach Guerrero 

Russian postcard. Kaulbach Carmen 

FAK Image of the Day 4/3 ~ Die Tanzerin for the Russian Market

Die tanzerin Guerrero by Friedrich Augutst von Kaulbach was one of his most popular paintings and definitely was the most widely reproduced of his Guerrero portraits. Some are well-produced, some editions have colors issues. Some identify her correctly as "The Dancer Guerrero", some as Otero, some just as the anonymous "Danseuse" or "Carmen". One has her identified as "Tamara". Eight images below:

Russian postcard published by Richard. F.A. Kaulbach: Guerero

Verlag Lenz & Rudolff, Riga Kaulbach: Guerrero 

 Kaulbach: Danseuse

 Kaulbach: Otero 

 Kaulbach: Tamara 

Russian postcard. Real photo postcard Kaulbach: Guerrero 

Russian postcard. Real photo postcard Kaulbach: Carmen

Russian postcard. Real photo postcard Kaulbach: Carmen 

Real Photo Image of the Day 4/3/2011

Real photo postcard. Photo by I. Mendez circa 1899. This photograph appeared on the cover of the Spanish periodical Bellas Artes: Revista Illustrada February 9th , 1899. "Bellezas Artisticas: La Bella Guerrero".

SHERIFF SEIZES GUERRERO'S GOWN 1904

SHERIFF SEIZES GUERRERO’S GOWN

Invades Dancer’s Chicago Hotel Apartments with a Writ Obtained by Ziegfeld

ALLEGED UNPAID DRAFTS FOR $535
(Special Dispatch to The Sunday Telegraph [New York])

Chicago , Oct. 1st — Rosario Guerrero, the Spanish music hall dancer, saw $12,000 worth of her gowns, costumes and laces seized by Deputy Sheriff Maher yesterday.

The actress, who is appearing at the Hyde & Behman’s music hall, screamed in protest at the invasion of her apartments at the Sherman House, but the deputy, sent to seize her property in satisfaction of an alleged debt of $535, paid no attention to her distress.

Maher read the writ, after which he demanded the keys of the trunks, which were finally produced.

He was about to call for a wagon with which to remove them when Miss Guerrero proposed that they leave the property in the hands of custodians with permission for the actress to remove what was necessary for her to use on the stage and in the meantime pay the amount due to Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

Ziegfeld had produced the writ for non-payment on two drafts on Paris banks.”

The Sunday Telegraph, New York, October 2, 1904

 

Original photograph of Chicago's Hyde & Behman's New Music Hall circa 1904

 Detail of photograph

Bathing Beauty Image of the Day 4/2/2011

Charles Reutlinger was one of the most famous portrait photographers of the late 19th- early 20th Century. Best known for music hall performers and early "cheesecake" photography. In 1899, he published a series of photographs of varietee stars in bathing costume posing in various vignettes called Les baigneuses. Some images  were sold as photos of Guerrero, many were vignettes from the series (I think called Nos jolies baigneuses or Le bain du mer) and some are rather strange composite compositions.

S.I.P. 74th° Série N° 7. Hand-tinted real photo.

Friedrich August von Kaulbach Image of the Day 4/2/2011

Framed chromolith purchased at the flea-market April 16, 1999. I researched the artist when I got home, bought a monograph on Friedrich August von Kaulbach, discovered the subject's name was Rosario Guerrero and that he did at least six portraits of her between 1903 and 1908. This image, entitled Die tanzerin Guerrero ("the dancer Guerrero"), was the most widely commercially publish Kaulbach portraits of Guerrero. Reproduced in multiple editions of postcards, in magazine articles, books, this portrait was even the basis for Guerrero's posters for her performances at the Wintergarten theater in Berlin. There is a version of Die tanzernin Guerrero in the Frye Art Gallery in Seattle, WA.

Cigarette Card of the Day 4/2/2011

Early photo by Charles Reutlinger from 1896. 

Identified as "Maria Guerrero" Cigarillos Londres circa 1900. Real photo.

Identified as "Maria Guerrero" Cigarillos Londres circa 1900. real photo (another copy)

English cigarette card Hill's Cigarettes circa 1900

 Unknown publisher. Real photo.