Welcome to the CESAR Imagebank

The CESAR Imagebank is an interactive repository of images relating to the seventeenth and eighteenth-century French theatre. It includes all types of image: portraits of playwrights and performers, scenes from plays, plans of theatres, etc.

Each image is associated with its own set of metadata which allows the user to search the imagebank easily and rapidly by category, theme, object, etc. Where appropriate, images are linked to the relevant datapages in the CESAR database.

The Help file (see the bar towards the top of the page) provides guidance on searching the imagebank and retrieving the images. To use the full range of resources, your browser must be Javascript enabled and set to allow pop-ups.

We are grateful to the institutions that have generously allowed us to reproduce images from their collections:

• The Taylor Institution Library, Oxford
• The Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris
• The Library of Trinity College, Dublin
• The Harvard Theatre Collection
• The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• The Victoria & Albert Theatre Museum, London
• The John Rylands Library, Manchester
• The Library of the University of Montreal