Portal:Opera/Selected picture/96
Credit: Eugène Du Faget, restored by Adam Cuerden
Costume designs for the première of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots featuring Julie Dorus-Gras as Marguerite, Adolphe Nourrit as Raoul, and Cornélie Falcon as Valentine. Three years after the premiere, Nouritt, beset with physical and mental illness, committed suicide in Naples.