Full-length lithograph of Elssler

by Alexandre Lacauchie in the role of Florinda in the ballet Le Diable Boiteux by Fanny Elssler

$375 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

250 x 155 mm. Printed on china paper and laid down to mounting sheet. Together with a 4-page biography of Elssler by Eugène Briffault from the Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques.Slightly worn and foxed; biographical essay split at spine. Beaumont: The Romantic Ballet, no. 23. Chaffee French, 540.Elssler ranks with Maria Taglioni and Carlotta Grisi among the legendary prima ballerinas of the Romantic ballet. She made her

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