Hector Berlioz

Dantan, Jean-Pierre (1800-1869) (after a work of)

Ramelet, Charles (1805-1851)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1848

Height:

15.5 cm  (6 1/8 in.)

Width:

11.0 cm  (4 5/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

lithography

Description

Print represents a caricature/bust of the composer Hector Berlioz. Pedestal spells out the composer's name with a pictogram "ber-lit-haut."

People as subjects

Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) (Composer)

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Seligman, Janet. Figures of fun: the caricature statuettes of Jean-Pierre Dantan (London: Oxford University Press, 1957).

Sorel, Philippe. "Dantan Jeune (1800-1869) et les musiciens de son temps", RIdIM Newsletter 15/1 (spring 1990) 10-18. RILM 1990-5753.

RIdIM record id

556