10. Charles Crehen
(1829-?)
Franz Liszt Performing at the Piano, with Berlioz, Czerny, the Violinist Ernst and the Artist Kriehuber in Attendance

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Crehen, Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt Performing at the Piano, with Berlioz, Czerny, the Violinist Ernst and the Artist Kriehuber in Attendance

Lithograph, 1846, 327 x 455 mm. A magnificent group portrait. Crehen is listed in the Bibliothèque Nationale Inventaire as a lithographer, but this print is not mentioned. In fact, it appears to be a dead-on copy, with only the signature changed and presumably made for Parisian audiences, of a lithograph by Kriehuber himself. Though it is inscribed “Paris, 1846,” Liszt was not in Paris that year; in fact, that is the year of Kriehuber's lithograph. Crehen emigrated to the United States in 1850 where he continued his work as a lithographer. Some sources give his birth date as 1829. If so, he made this print at the age of seventeen or so, quite an accomplishment, even as a copy.