Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alceste

Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste

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Reason

I think this predates anything else in

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by about 50 years, which makes it unique for us, and starts to bring in a whole new generation of theatre and artists. Plus, it's one of Gluck's major operas, which makes it quite valuable. It wasn't an easy restoration - the paper was somewhat filthy - but I did my best.

Articles in which this image appears

Alceste (Gluck), François-Joseph Bélanger, et al

FP category for this image

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Creator

François-Joseph Bélanger, restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator –
  FPs 00:30, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply
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• Support – that's a ton of restoration!, nice. Bammesk (talk) 03:33, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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    FPs 14:43, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply
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• Support impressive restoration work, has EV (t · c) buidhe 23:12, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:35, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. MER-C 16:48, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:06, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 03:55, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]