Fine original small bust-length drawing in black chalk and pen and ink on blue-grey paper, purportedly of the composer
$750 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians
Signed
Ca. 71 x 60 mm. Signed with monogram E.B. at lower left and identified on the verso as being of Carl Maria von Weber. Mounted to dark ivory stock; hinged to mount at upper margin of verso. We have been unable to identify the artist E.B. A prototypical 19th-century musician-critic, he sought through his works, words, and efforts as performer and conductor to promote art and shape emerging middle-class audiences to its
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