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| Title:: |
Rossini: "Je donnerais trois operas pour avoir fait votre romance." |
Year:: |
1830 ca. |
| Artist: |
Scheffer, Jean Gabriel |
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| Medium: |
lithograph |
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| Period: |
French 19th Century |
School/Style: |
Caricature 18th-19th Century |
| Catalogs: |
Beraldi XII p. 17;
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Height(mm):
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144
152
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| Price: |
$450.00 |
| Description: |
A strong, perhaps slightly overinked, impression on wove paper with good margins, from the series "What one says and what one thinks." Rossini, standing in his paintings-filled drawing room, says to the handsome young would-be composer, "I would give three operas to have written your romance." What he thinks is given in a musical quotation from his opera "La Cenerentola," Act I, Scene 2, in which Don Magnifico sings the words "A donkey, but attractive." |
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