Musical interest Walking stick ca. 1900

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, known in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, composed and performed in Paris in 1894. 

This musical masterpiece was a big turning point at that time, it opens, famously, with a sinuous solo flute melody that conjures up all the languorous heat of a summer afternoon in the forest evoked through smooth melodies and almost improvisatory passages, it tells the tale of a mythical faun, playing his pipes alone in the woods. He is enchanted by nymphs and naiads and drifts off to sleep filled with colourful dreams. 

Debussy stretched the traditional system of keys and tonalities to their limits. Most of the great musicians have been inspired by this amazing musical composition which later was adapted into a ballet when Vaslav Nijinsky danced to it in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris.  

This cane is modeled in a L shape handle and exhibits Debussy's faun, lying naked along the design of the handle shape and recreating in a corner of the forest, reaching out his arm to play with a waterfall. This scene perfectly recreates the musical message that the composer wanted to convey to us. It is signed by F. LASSERRE a well-known artist who specialized in rending work for famous silversmiths. On the other side, we see the goat, the inseparable companion of the fauns eating a flowering plant.  

It is 9 cm high x 10 cm to the side, it bears French silver trademarks, it is on top of a sound laurel wood shaft and finishing with a bimetal ferrule. The O.L. is 92 cm, there are minimal signs of use, and the condition is perfect.