Large lithographic portrait

by Jab after the painting by Edouard Jean Conrad Hamman 1819-1888 by Christoph Willibald Gluck

$185 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

The composer is depicted full-length, standing, facing forward, dressed in a long coat, an elegant waistcoat, britches, and stockings. He holds a writing quill in his right hand, which partially rests on an open opera manuscript resting on a table next to the composer; volumes of his works and music paper rest against a leg of the table.Image size 400 x 275 mm; sheet size 522 x 372 mm. Printed by J. Hesse on wove paper on an off-white ground. Some minor wear,

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