ROSSINI, GIOACCHINO ANTONIO. Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("G. Rossini"), n.p., n.d. [1868]. 152 x 107mm. (6 x 4 1/4 in.) including mount. Engraved caption: "10 Fevrier 1868, 500e Rep[resentati]on de Guillaume Tell...Souvenir Reconaissant." A fine three-quarter length portrait of the seated composer holding a cane (or conductor's baton). Rossini, whose very successful Guillaume Tell had been first performed in 1829, died about nine months after the celebrations connected with the 500th performance of the opera, of which observance this is a souvenir.

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ROSSINI, GIOACCHINO ANTONIO. Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("G. Rossini"), n.p., n.d. [1868]. 152 x 107mm. (6 x 4 1/4 in.) including mount. Engraved caption: "10 Fevrier 1868, 500e Rep[resentati]on de Guillaume Tell...Souvenir Reconaissant." A fine three-quarter length portrait of the seated composer holding a cane (or conductor's baton). Rossini, whose very successful Guillaume Tell had been first performed in 1829, died about nine months after the celebrations connected with the 500th performance of the opera, of which observance this is a souvenir.