Les Promesses d'un ténor, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier.

Les Promesses d'un ténor, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier.

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Les Promesses d'un ténor, 1842. The promises of a tenor. 1841. 'Carissimi signori, ze vous remercie, perché je vous promets zi zamais ze çante, de ne çantare que sur la scène del Teatro-Italiano di Parizi'. 1842. Il signor Rubini redit aux échos de la Tamise les éternelles cavatines de la Somnambula des Puritains et de la Niobé. Italian singer in broken French: 1841. 'Dear sirs, I thank you, because I promise that if I ever sing again, it will only be on the stage of the Teatro-Italiano of Paris'. 1842. Signor Rubini performs to the echoes of the Thames the eternal cavatinas of The Somnambula from the Puritans and from The Niobé. (Rubini promises the Parisians not to sing anywhere else, but the following year appears on the London stage). From Caricatures du jour.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Honore Daumier, attributed to: French: Artist, caricaturist, sculptor
Subject
  1. Giovanni Battista Rubini: Italian: Opera singer, tenor

Medium
  1. Lithograph

Picture Type
  1. Print

Category Hierarchy

Society & Culture Performing Arts

Society & Culture Music

Artistic Representations Satires

People Other


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3628x4960
File Size : 52,720kb


Aliases

  1. M.91.82.38
  1. 1090004543
  1. 2-997-017
  1. 2997017
  1. M.91.82.38

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