8. Matthäus Küsel (1621-1682)
after Lodovico Burnacini (1636-1707)

Ville de Paride, from Il Pomo d’Oro, Act V, Scene I

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Küsel, Ville de Paride

Ville de Paride, from Il Pomo d’Oro, Act V, Scene I

Etching and engraving, 1667-8, 253 x 430 mm., LeBlanc 26. Fine, sharp impression on laid paper with partial thread margins or trimmed just inside the platemark; flattened vertical center fold. Burnacini was the greatest theatrical designer of his time and for this first production of Pietro Antonio Cesti’s (1623-1669) opera, he designed some twenty different sets, one more ingenious than another. Il Pomo d’Oro was presented on the occasion of the wedding of Emperor Leopold I, at the Imperial Theater, Vienna in 1667.