Madame Carolina Otero in L'Imperatrice, a ballet by jean Richepin and Paul Vidal, performed at the Theatre Olympia in 1901. Agustina del Carmen Otero Iglesias, La Belle Otero, Spanish dancer, singer and later courtesan, 1868-1965. Photograph by Leopold Emile Reutlinger. Colour printing of a hand-coloured illustration based on a monochrome photograph from George Newnes’s Players of the Day, London, 1905.

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