[HAYEZ, Francesco (1791-1882)]

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Los 248 | [HAYEZ, Francesco (1791-1882)]
[HAYEZ, Francesco (1791-1882)]

Costumi, Vestiti alla Festa da Ballo data dal Nobilissimo Sig. Conte G. Batthyany la sera del 30 gennaio 1828. Milan: Giuseppe Elena, 1828.

First edition of this extremely rare work, complete with all the 60 plates coloured by a contemporary hand. During the Milan Carnival of 1828, the Hungarian Count Antonio Giuseppe Batthyany invited the Milanese aristocracy to a ball in his palace in Porta Orientale. He employed the Italian painter Francesco Hayez, a leading artist in mid-nineteenth century Milan renowned for his grand historical paintings and exceptionally fine portraits, to record the sumptuous event. Among the portraits illustrating the various costumes worn by the guests, Hayez included a portrait of the Count and a self-portrait. Very few complete copies are recorded in libraries, probably because many of the characters portrayed were able to keep the plate with their illustration. Not in Colas or Lipperheide. Bobins IV, 1232.



Folio (400 x 271mm). 60 hand-coloured lithographic plates, 2pp. letterpress list of plates (without the engraved title, marginal staining, mostly marginal spotting). Original brown marbled-paper covered boards (worn at head and tail of spine, rubbed); contained in red cloth folding box.





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