Autograph Note on a Visiting Card

Original visiting card from the important ballet pedagogue, signed and inscribed by Cecchetti on the verso. Translated from the French: "Please excuse the delay in replying to your letter. Here, Monsieur, is the autograph which you desired for your collection. Enrico Cecchetti." Together with the original envelope, addressed to an N. Milne Harrop in London and postmarked 1919. Autographs from Cecchetti are rare. Very fine. 4 x 2.5 inches (10 x 6 cm). 

Creator of such roles as the Bluebird and Carabosse in Petipa's "The Sleeping Beauty," Cecchetti was a star at the Imperial Ballet and by 1888 was widely accepted as the greatest ballet virtuoso in the world. As a teacher, he taught and mentored Anna Pavlova, Leonide Massine and Vaslav Nijinsky, among many others, and traveled extensively as ballet master of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. He created the ballet technique known now as the "Cecchetti Method," still used by many ballet companies around the world.  (16497)

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Autograph Letter

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