Chaîne de l'Épine, a mountain ridge in the department of Savoie, near Chambéry
Chaîne de l'Épine | Catherine Tofts (in white), Margherita de l'Épine (with a red muff) and some opera musicians
(''Rehearsal of an opera'', by Marco Ricci |
Perhaps to illustrate the famed rivalry, Marco Ricci painted L'Épine with her back to Tofts, in the composition Rehearsal of an opera (c.1709) .