Bidspirit auction | CHARPENTIER GUSTAVE: (1860-1956)

CHARPENTIER GUSTAVE: (1860-1956) - CHARPENTIER GUSTAVE: (1860-1956) French composer. A fine A.M.Q.S., Gustave Charpentier , to the centre of a large oblong folio page removed from an album, being five bars of music which he identifies as being from the third act of his most famous opera, Louise , with lyrics beneath, ´Tout etre a le droit d'être li - bre!´ , signed, inscribed and dated beneath the quotation, ´A Monsieur Nadar avec ma respectueuse sympathie´ , and dated March 1902 in his hand. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG Provenance: The present quotation originates from the personal Album Amicorum of Nadar (1820-1910) Gaspard-Felix Tournachon. French photographer, caricaturist and balloonist, the first person to take aerial photographs (1858).