Description
EDWARD ANCOURT ALCAZAR D'HIVER / ARMAND BEN. Circa 1873.
22 x 15 1/2 inches. A. Fouquet. Paris.
Condition A.
Armand Ben pioneered the stage character of the gommeux at his 1873 performance at L'Horloge "je cherche Lodoskaïa." The stereotype of "a young man who pushed the sake of elegance to the ridiculous," not...