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Bohêmiens.
Bohêmiens.
Bigand, Pinx. Mouilleron, Lith.
Imp. Bertauts, Paris. [n.d., c.1861.]
Lithograph. Printed area 290 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼"), with wide margins.
A troupe of travelling musicians at rest. Based on 'Halte de Bohémiens' by Auguste Bigaud (1803-75), painted in 1861, now in the musée Calvet at Avignon.
See Ref: 54322 for proof impression.
[Ref: 54295]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[Bohêmiens.]
[Bohêmiens.]
Bigaud, Pinx. Mouilleron, Lith.
Imp. Bertauts, Paris. [n.d., c.1861.]
Lithograph, proof before title. Printed area 255 x 390mm (10 x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A troupe of travelling musicians at rest. Based on 'Halte de Bohémiens' by Auguste Bigaud (1803-75), painted in 1861, now in the musée Calvet at Avignon.
See Ref: 54295
[Ref: 54322]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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Pierre Jeliote.
Pierre Jeliote.
Peint par L. Toqué. Gravé par L. J. Cathelin.
A Paris chés l'Auteur Quay de l'Ecole dans l'Allée entre les deux Cafés.
Fine engraving. Sheet 405 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on card on left side at corners.
Half-length portrait of Pierre Jélyotte (1713-97), shown as Apollo playing a lyre. Regarded as the best singer Europe, he often sang for Louis XV and, after retiring from singing, joined first the 'Orchestre du Roi' as a violinist and guitarist, then the private orchestra of Madame de Pompadour as a cellist. Louis Tocqué's oil on canvas of 1755 is now in the Hermitage Museum.
[Ref: 54290]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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La Cigale.
La Cigale.
Peint par A. Bridgman. Photogravure Goupil & Co.
Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Editeurs, successors de Goupil & C.ie. Entered according to act of congress in the year 1884 by M. Knoedler & Co., in the office of the librarian of congress at Washington.
Chine collé photogravure. 515 x 295mm (20¼ x 11½") with very wide margins. Small toning patch in edge at top.
A woman in a classical shift, her arms wrapped around an ornate lute with broken strings. A scene from Jean de La Fontaine's fable, 'La Cigale et la Fourmi' (The Grasshopper and the Ant'), with a woman representing the grasshopper who has played all summer and is unprepared for winter. Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928), American artist.
[Ref: 54291]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Jenny Lind.
Jenny Lind. [After Fritz L'Allemand]
M & N Hanhart, Lith Printers.
Lithograph on india paper, sheet 310 x 235mm (12¼ x 9¼). Cut and laid onto card. Some surface dirt.
Portrait of the Swedish opera singer Johanna Maria Lind-Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind), full-length, slightly turned to the right, a gloved hand raised and a handkerchief in the other, dressed in a dark silk dress with a lace collar adorned with a broach about her bust.
[Ref: 54902]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Loves old sweet song.
Loves old sweet song.
C. Kiesel Pinx. Photogravure Hanfstaengl.
Published by Franz Hanfstaengl, Munich, London & New York,
Photogravure. 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"), with large margins.
A woman playing a lute, an English version of 'Ein altes Lied' by Conrad Kiesel (also Konrad, 1846-1921).
[Ref: 54292]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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The Modern Orpheus. Paganini. [in pencil].
The Modern Orpheus. Paganini. [in pencil]. [Opera House June 3rd 1831.] [Sketches of the Musical world no.1 to be continued.]
RL [after a sketch done by Daniel Maclise].
[Published by Tho.s M.cLean, 26, Haymarket, June 10th 1831.]
Lithograph sheet 8¾ x 6½" (220 x 165mm). Cut losing title and publication line. Some light creasing. Stain in top right.
Portrait of the virtuoso Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 - 1840). The date and location refer to his first appearance in England, after a marathon tour of all the major cities in Europe which lasted from 1828 into early 1831. Paganini is shown standing at the front of the stage with his violin, whilst Robert Lindley, Nicolas Mori and Dragonetti straining to see round the front, to try and see what was going on. Orpheus was a legendary musician, poet and prophet in Greek mythology, considered the best of the best.
[Ref: 54841]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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