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Félix Emmanuel Henri Philippoteaux
1815-1884
Portrait of Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) Seated at the Piano Composing
Graphite, pink and blue watercolor, with white opaque watercolor, on paper.
9 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches (244 x 164 mm)
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Music Fund.
1974.4
Inscription:
Inscribed in pencil at lower right, "F. Philippoteaux / chérubini"; inscribed scores on floor at lower left include "Requiem" (1836), and two of Cherubini's best-known operas, "Lodoiska" (1791), and "Les deux journées" (1800).
Provenance:
P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., Ltd., London.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 176.
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