by Wagner, Richard; Fritz Luckhardt (photog.)
[ca. 1880s]. Albumen print cabinet card, 5.25" x 3.75" on 6.5 x 4" white mount, photographer's stamp in lower right coner of image, a.e.g., ink title on mount. CONDITION: Very good, strong tonality. A cabinet card of German composer Richard Wagner, looking to his left and wearing a cravatte. Franz Luckhardt, an Austrian photographer, specialized in portraits of famous people, particularly artists. Three of his cabinet card portraits-of composer Franz Lizst, pianist Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein, and cellist Jacques Offenbach-are held at the National Portrait Gallery in London. (Inventory #: 7218)