Lot 431: Le Fiancé de Thylda.

"The scene is Stockholm. Thylda's fiancé is Otto, and her father is the same Baron von Gondremarck who appeared as a young man in Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne . . . The baron decides that before the wedding his future son-in-law should have the same opportunity for adventures in Paris that he had. He sends him off but Thylda makes him miss his train. He goes anyway . . . in a dream. On awakening, he finds that the dream has sufficed and is content to confine his travels to a honeymoon trip" (French Opera, p. xxiv).

22 1/4 x 32 5/8 in./57.1 x 83 cm

1900

A.