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DescriptionLucy Arbell in Massenet's Thérèse.jpg
"Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique, Thérèse, drame [musical], musique [de] Massenet : [Lucy Arbell] : enquête, R. Chavagnes" - Poster design for the Paris première of Jules Massenet's Thérèse, featuring Lucy Arbell as Thérèse. It's not clear what R. Chavagnes (presumably journalist René Chavagnes) had to do with it, possibly he compiled a directory of images held.
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As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
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The Bibliothèque nationale de France states the image is public domain, but do not state why. Since there is no signature, and they don't identify an artist, and given the year, I presume their logic is that this is:
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