Before the Ballet. Drypoint

by noted German Impressionist painter and etcher Ernst Oppler 1867-1929 by Ballet Iconography - 20th Century

$475 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

Signed in full in pencil just outside platemark at lower right. Also signed and dated in the plate E. Oppler 15 at lower left, inscribed in pencil 9-50 just outside platemark at lower left and VII.II at lower left corner, with titling in pencil to lower margin. On ivory laid Bosquet watermarked paper. Impression size 180 x 270 mm. 7 x 9-1/2 , with wide margins. A pre-performance or intermission scene depicting three tiers of an elaborate performance space with

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