Francois Auguste LEDOUX (French school engraver active in Paris during the second half of the 19th century) "Le jeune Mozart" (Mozart faisant exécuter, à douze ans sa première messi) Original etching in aquatint from a subject by Eugène Ernest Hillemacher (Paris 1818 - 1887) printed by the Imprimerie Chardon of Paris for the publishing house Knoedler & Co. of New York which publishes it together with the Dusacq & C. of Paris and the Pilgeram & Lefevre of London in 1875. Nice copy before letter without of the title, printed on Japanese paper of crimson shades applied on a sheet of heavy paper, trimmed inside the imprint of the plate near the crimson paper, with some traces of humidity at the top and bottom edges and various areas of tiny points foxing but overall in excellent general condition. Hillemacher's original painting was presented out of competition at the 1867 Paris Motor Show under the title "Le jeune Mozart" and the catalog contains the text of a letter by Leopold Mozart, father of Wolfgang Amadeus, of 14 December 1768, which talks about the The episode represented: "La Messe que Wolfgang a fait exécuter et dirigée lui même le 7 Decembre, en presence de toute la Cour, dans la nouvelle église de l'ophelinat du P.Parhammer, a recommended ce ce ses ennemis avaient ruiné en l 'empêchant de faire jouer son opéra, et a convaincu de la méchanceté de nos contradicteurs la Cour et le public qui étaient accourus en foule ... "Bibliography: Benezit" Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs "Paris 1976 vol.5 page 544 (Hillemacher) Catalog Paris Salon 1867 page 103 No. 752 (Hillemacher) Beraldi "Les Graveurs du XIX siecle" Paris 1889 volume IX page 80. Milesi "Dictionary of engravers" Bergamo 1989 page 206. Measurements in mm : 735 x 8 80 the sheet