Nor would it have been among the 23,000 bird and 6,000 mammal specimens in the taxidermological displays of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, from which he transposed the central event in this painting, the stuffed arrangement of a Senegal Lion Devouring an Antelope, to a fanciful setting all his own.
If you're in the planning stages of your own wedding but think that a fanciful setting might only be reserved for Queen Elizabeth II's heirs, think again.
That fanciful setting is where Tony gave a birthday luncheon for his wife, Elizabeth, the artist who is called Beegle by all her chums, a Gemini like her husband.
Leon Botstein conducts both as a double bill, with fanciful sets and costumes by the faux-Romantic duo of McDermott & McGough.
That attitude extends to the humor, the music, the fanciful sets and costumes, and the effortless, pleasurable dancing.
In fact, the soaring, eerily fanciful set that was erected last spring in a vacant power plant outside Baltimore, was spectacular.
They are intentionally artificial, like something in a children's book, or, more to the point, like the fanciful sets that Méliès used in his movies.
Glyndebourne's fanciful sets for the Hockney Flute were subsequently destroyed in a warehouse fire, but the production was revived to acclaim in America, after which he created a series of shows that have revolutionised opera design.
Eye and ear candy for fans of Indian musical cinema, it is 2 hours 11 minutes -- bracingly compact by Bollywood standards -- of wide-screen close-ups, fanciful sets, colorful costumes, bellybuttons, almost-kisses and 10 pumped-up, achingly sweet songs.
They begin the show in front of a closed curtain, as if Statler and Waldorf had wandered onstage, then reveal a fanciful set that riffs on August Wilson and "The Pillowman" and features a tuna-sandwich surprise.
David Denby called the film a "masterpiece," adding, "The rhapsodic tone never wavers: the movie depends on painted and digitized backgrounds, intentionally artificial — like a child's book, or, more, to the point, like the fanciful sets that Méliès used in his many zany movies, whose creation Scorsese dramatizes as sheer exuberant fun".
