Fine bust-length aquatint portrait engraving

by Queneday by Antonio Sacchini

$375 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

245 x 185 mm. An early proof, without titling. Slightly worn and soiled. Arrigoni & Bertarelli 3949. In 1770 Burney considered Sacchini one of the four greatest composers of Italy, along with Jommelli, Galuppi and Piccinni. While he placed Piccinni supreme in the comic style, he nominated Sacchini ‘the most promising composer in the serious’... A critic of the next generation, Giuseppe Carpani,

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