May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LISZT, FRANZ. Autograph Letter Signed, "FLiszt," to Prince Józef Michal Poniatowski, in French, inviting him to a dinner party with many of his friends on Saturday and trying to persuade him to accept by pointing out that the concert he is to attend that day at Princess Metternich's will end "before our cutlets are on the stove." 2 pages, 8vo, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; horizontal folds; matted with envelope and portrait in a double-sided frame. With the original envelope, addressed in his hand. Np, nd

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Poniatowski (1816-1873) was a Polish aristocrat, politician, and diplomat; he was also an amateur tenor and composer of operas.