Posted 10 years ago
robin56
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Le barbier de seville art print? Lithograph? Recent flea market find. Know nothing about this piece. Please help. The bottom reads le barbier de seville le comte mes voeux ceux d'un simple bachelier.
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Posted 10 years ago
robin56
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Le barbier de seville art print? Lithograph? Recent flea market find. Know nothing about this piece. Please help. The bottom reads le barbier de seville le comte mes voeux ceux d'un simple bachelier.
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robin56, you have a delightful print of Count Almaviva, "le comte" or "the Count," from the opera "The Barber of Seville" by Gioachino Rossini. The other legend on the print, "mes voeux ceux d'un simple bachelier," means "my wishes, those of a mere bachelor."
The print, courtesy Bridgeman Art Images:
http://www.bridgemanimages.com/fr/asset/379428//count-almaviva-from-the-opera-the-barber-of-seville-by-gioachino-rossini-1792-1868-litho
Summary of the opera, courtesy Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barber_of_Seville
Thanks solver! I really need to know about the age