Gioachino ROSSINI / Portrait caricature after the drawing by André Gill Signed

Description

Portrait caricature after the drawing by André Gill
Author:
ROSSINI, Gioachino 1792-1868
Title:
Portrait caricature after the drawing by André Gill
Description:
Large folio. Ca. 18.5" x 12.5".
With a facsimile of a signed inscription in Rossini's hand below image: "J'adhère avec plaisir à la publication de ma caricature dans votre journal heureux de voir que Le Singe de Pesaro n'est point oublié. G. Rossini Passy 27 Juin 1867."
Archivally matted and attractively framed under glass. Overall size 26" x 20".
Müller: Hommage an Rossini, 89.
Gill was commissioned to draw cover illustrations for the weekly four-sheet newpspaper La Lune by the publisher François Polo.
In the present caricature, Rossini is "shown with a dog and his begging bowl sitting patiently at the side as the composer lights a mirliton as if it were a firecracker. The dog's begging bowl probably suggests that Rossini was a modern composer ... not dependent on a patron or the church for his livelihood, but dependent instead on the payment of the public. On the mirliton are various monikers for Rossini, Le Maître and Le Cynge de Pessaro (the swan of Pessaro), Rossini's birthplace ... Rossini's permission for the caricature is published underneath ... Rossini is making a pun at his own expense, changing "cynge" (swan) to "singe" (monkey) ... On 1 July, a few days before the publication of this issue, but after Rossini gave his permission, a new composition of Rossini's had been performed at the Paris World Fair. The piece, Dieu tout puissant, which was a hymn to Napoleon III, is reported to have a bombastic text performed by orchestral, military band, chorus of high priests, chorus of soldiers, bells, side drums and cannon, which we see in the caricature. Rossini is dressed as a pifferaro, an Italian pipe player, whose clothing underlines his Italian roots." Breckbill: André Gill and Musicians in Paris in the 1860s and 1870s: Caricatures in La Lune and L'Éclipse, pp. 215-228.
Seller ID:
36588
Subject:
Art & Photographs
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