Curious c. 1800 French Watercolor, Le Diable Couleur de Rose Opera, Valogne tiger in wild and I think really beautiful

and I think really beautiful enough to frame

with expected wear and one surface scratch as detailed

making it easy to rotate to remove whatever coins one might drop inside

the smaller a female-- on carved bone posts

Curious c. 1800 French Watercolor, Le Diable Couleur de Rose Opera, Valogne tiger in wild and I think really beautifulSuch a strange and curious watercolor drawing, which I know dates to right around 1800. I believe it was done after a published engraving dated 1798, advertising the performance of Le Diable Couleur de Rose, a comedic opera, in Valogne, France, and was printed with the caption "Oh! Les belles pommes." (Oh! The beautiful apples.") Here, instead, the caption is simply Vologne (in those beautiful block letters) and the title of the opera is handwritten