Full-length lithograph of Elssler

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

$275 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

250 x 155 mm. Printed on china paper and laid down to mounting sheet. Slightly browned. Some foxing to mounting sheet. Beaumont: The Romantic Ballet, no. 23. Chaffee French, 540 from the Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques .Elssler ranks with Maria Taglioni and Carlotta Grisi among the legendary prima ballerinas of the Romantic ballet. She made her début in Vienna at the Kärntnertortheater and in 1824 went to Italy

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