Fine large bust-length portrait lithograph

by Zéphirin Belliard 1798-?1857 by Fromental HalÉVy

$800 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

The composer is depicted in formal dress holding a quill pen poised over a leaf of blank music manuscript paper. F. Halévy printed to foot of image. 292 x 355 mm. Minor browning to edges. A fine impression on wove paper with large margins. Published in the series Célébrités contemporaines. A French composer, teacher and writer on music, Halévy was a pupil of both Cherubini and

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