File:Fromental Halévy, L'Éclair score cover - Restoration.jpg

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Summary

Description	English: Hand-coloured title page to a an 1836 vocal score to Fromental Halévy's , L'éclair. This is possibly the first edition: the opera premièred on 16 December 1835.
Date	1836
Source	Harvard Library From Halévy, F., 1799-1862. [Éclair. Vocal score]. L'eclair : opéra comique en trois actes / paroles de M.M. de Planard et de St. Georges ; musique de F. Halévy ; partition de piano arrangée par H. Potier. Paris : M. Schlesinger, [1836]. Mus 693.4.610.3.
Author	Paul Gavarni? (1804–1866);^[1] lithograph by the Thierry brothers. Restoration by Adam Cuerden
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↑ Compare the mirror-flipped signature at https://archive.org/stream/gavarnig00gava#page/48/mode/2up and consider also File:Paul_Gavarni_-_The_Barmaid_-_Walters_371442.jpg and File:Paul_Gavarni_-_Gulliver_and_the_Brobdingnagian_Philosophers_-_Walters_371482.jpg and File:Paul Gavarni - Lady on Sofa - Walters 371427.jpg. Add in that this was then lithographically reproduced, and that Gavarni did a lot of work in title pages, and worked for the Thierry brothers.

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	10:40, 21 June 2015	2,652 × 3,544 (5.88 MB)	Adam Cuerden