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Berlioz Photo Album : 1850 – 1859

Berlioz’s photos and portraits

1850 – portrait by Gustave Courbet

This portrait is in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

A reproduction of the 1850 portrait as appeared in Livre du Centenaire du Journal des Débats, published in 1889.
We are most grateful to our friend Gene Halaburt for kindly sending us an electronic copy of this picture.

1851 – Baugniet (drawing)/Guillet (lithograph)

This engraving is reproduced from a 19th century book in our collection. The portrait was drawn by Charles Baugniet during Berlioz’s second visit to London as a member of the international commission examining musical instruments at the Great Exhibition. A copy of the lithograph is in the Musée Hector Berlioz.

1852 – Plaster bas-relief
by Anthony Samuel Adam-Salomon

The original plaster is in the collection of Madame Reboul-Berlioz.

This picture is from a lithograph drawn by Charles Baugniet in 1853, during Berlioz’s fourth visit to London to stage his Benvenuto Cellini at the Opera in Covent Garden. The lithograph is a group picture, showing Berlioz with a number of English and foreign musicians in London at the time.
We are most grateful to Mike Joyce for sending us a photograph taken by him from an original copy of the engraving.

1853

This photograph is said to be taken in Baden Baden in 1853. The original once belonged to the head of Schott’s in Brussels but today is lost. All surviving reproductions show a photographic copy that once belonged to Adolphe Boschot and is now in the Musée Hector Berlioz in La Côte Saint-André.

1853

The original copy of this photograph belongs to Mr Don Gibson who has kindly sent us a facsimile which we scanned for this page. We are most grateful to Mr Gibson.

April 1854 – photograph by Mayer frères

This picture has been scanned from a 1989 postcard in our collection.

1854 – Silhouette of Berlioz

This silhouette is said to have been drawn at a rehearsal in the court theatre of Dresden on 28 April 1854. A copy of this drawing is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

1855, by Richard Lauchert

The portrait, reproduced on our postcard, was painted in February 1855 when Berlioz was on one of visits to Weimar. The original portrait is in the "Liszt-Haus" in Weimar; a reproduction is on display in the Musée Hector Berlioz in La Côte Saint-André.

1856 – after a photograph taken in Paris

This engraving is reproduced from a 19th century book in our collection.

January 1857 – photograph by Nadar

Painting by Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
after Nadar

This postcard, published around 1910, is in our own collection.

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