2. François Morellon de la Cave
(fl. ca. 1700-1755)

Antonio Vivaldi

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Morellon de la Cave, Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

Engraving, 1725, 247 x 187 mm., LeBlanc 7. Fine impression on laid paper with good margins; old mounting hinge on the left side. This is the famous and only known engraved portrait of Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), the great Venetian composer, which is reproduced in both Kinsky’s and Komma’s compendia of musical images and in Pincherle’s biography of the composer. The original engraving is rarely seen.