Stone engraving

by Théodore Maurisset fl. 1834-1859 after Jean-Pierre Dantan 1800-1869 by Michele Carafa

$350 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

109 x 41 mm. plus wide margins. An interesting and unusual image after Dantan's bronze bust. Carafa's head, in profile, is depicted as the stopper in a bottle of cologne, decorated with a plaque on a chain, within which are the word eau, a musical note g , the letter i and a circular object a globe? , forming a rebus which, decoded, reads Eau Solitaire, an allusion to Carafa's opera Le solitaire of 1822. Very slightly browned at edges.

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