Fan leaf celebrating Rossini with music from the Barber of Seville
This fan celebrates the composer Gioachino Rossini, offering an almost complete retrospective of his career, from his first opera, La cambiale di matrimonio (1810), to one of his last, Le comte Ory (1828). The absence of his final opera, Guillaume Tell of 1829, suggests the date for the design. Rossini’s portrait appears at the top center flanked by illustrations of some of his best-known characters and surrounded by the names of his operas, wreathed and crowned with laurels and garlands of flowers. Arias from The Barber of Seville and Tancredi frame the upper and lower arches of the fan. Rossini spent his late career in Paris, where this fan leaf was published.
Artwork Details
- Title: Fan leaf celebrating Rossini with music from the Barber of Seville
- Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century
- Date: 19th century
- Medium: Etching with stipple engraving printed in black and red ink
- Dimensions: 21 5/8 × 12 13/16 in. (55 × 32.5 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture, Fans
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938
- Object Number: 38.91.57
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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