Les Sylphides. L'Echo. The Echo.
Peint d’après nature et lithographié par C. Bargue. Imprimé par Becquet frères, à Paris.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Lithograph. 306 x 385mm. 12 x 15¼". Some scuffing. Cut.
Two young sylphs naked, one covering herself and bowing her head; the other paying a lute and gazing up into the sky. The scene is that of a garden at the side of a lake. Possible reference to the Les Sylphides the ballet of 1836 which had no particular plot but instead consisted of many white-clad slyphs, which is this image have removed their white coverings, dancing and playing in the moolight.
[Ref: 13940] £90.00
[n.d. c.1860.]
Lithograph. 306 x 385mm. 12 x 15¼". Some scuffing. Cut.
Two young sylphs naked, one covering herself and bowing her head; the other paying a lute and gazing up into the sky. The scene is that of a garden at the side of a lake. Possible reference to the Les Sylphides the ballet of 1836 which had no particular plot but instead consisted of many white-clad slyphs, which is this image have removed their white coverings, dancing and playing in the moolight.
[Ref: 13940] £90.00