Asta Bidspirit | Clement Louis Anne Marie Belle

Clement Louis Anne Marie Belle - Scenes from Voltaire's Zaira2 oil on canvas, cm. 42.5x33; cm. 42.5x30Prov.: Paris, Drouot, Compagnie Commissaires-Priseurs, 7 November 1997, n. 51Zaïre is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire, written in Alexandrian in 1732 and performed at the Comédie-Française on 13 August 1732. The play achieved great success from the beginning and remained in the repertoire of the Comédie-Française until 1936, inspiring Felice Romani received the libretto for Zaira, an opera by Vincenzo Bellini.