Ludwig van Beethoven. Mort le 26 Mars 1827. D'après le portrait original de Monsieur Ferd. Schimon, appartenant à Monsieur Schindler. Propriété de la Société des Concerts.

Lithograph, 32,7 x 39,2 cm, wove paper, signed and dated in the plate "h. Grevedon 1841", "Imp. Lemercier, Bernard & Cie" (sm. defects).

Stuck on paper support.

Portrait by one of Beethoven's closest confidants in the 1820s, F. Schimon (1797-1852), both opera singer and painter, with on the paper support the autograph signatures of the French musician and distinguished performer on the flute, Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941), of the French conductor and composer, Henri Benjamin Rabaud (1873-1949), and of A. Dechesne, a singer, stage performer or publisher of music sheets?