[DANCE - 18th Century]

Les Aprêts du Ballet Peints à la Gouache par Lavrins dans l'Avent-Scène de l'Opéra Et Gravés par Tresca. Stipple engraving by Salvadore Tresca after the painting by Nicolas Lavreince.

Paris: [ca. 1782]. 368 x 430 mm.

The scene depicts young female dancers in varying stages of dress/undress with attendants including two men, one coiffing a woman's hair, the other measuring a dress; another woman is at left background practicing a step in front of a tall mirror.

Slightly worn and soiled; minor paper loss; small edge tears and worm holes to margins; several small repairs; upper and lower margins trimmed to just inside platemark.

Bocher: Gravures françaises du XVIIIe Siècle, fasicule 1, p. 13, 4. Item #29672

Price: $550.00  other currencies