Gluck, Christoph Willibald,

Gluck, Christoph Willibald. Late 19th-century print, from the original plate, of S.C. Miger's engraving of the celebrated portrait by Duplessis, overall size c.30.8 x 24.2cm, blindstamp on reverse of Karl Ernst Henrici, with a one-page modern manuscript description, some light damp-staining, not affecting image--Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.--A 20th-century print, from the original plate, of the engraved portrait by Clemens Kohl (Vienna, 1793), no place or date, plate dimensions 14 x 9.5cm, with a two-page typed description; and three others, two with typed descriptions--Beethoven, Ludwig van. Engraved portrait by Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger, based on an engraving by Blasius Höfel, after a drawing by Louis Letronne, Zwickau: bei Gebr. Schumann[, c.1820?], overall size, 22.4 x cm, 19.8, light spotting, browning to edges; Engraved portrait, by Joseph Steinmüller?, after a drawing by Johann Stephan Decker [cf. Beethoven-Haus Bonn B 49/a], no place or date, overall size 31.3 x 23.2cm, without engraver's details or dedication, light spotting to edges (7) 

Emil Vogel, 'Gluckportaits', Jahrbuch der Musikbibliothek Peters, 1897, p.16

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Of the various reproductions of the celebrated 1775 portrait in oils of Gluck by Duplessis (since 1824 in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), the present engraving by Miger, a rare example printed from the original plates, is generally considered the best. Formerly from the legendary collection of Louis Koch.