In our Portraits series :
Jacques Offenbach (1819 – 1880) was a German composer and cellist who became a naturalised French citizen.
His most famous works include opéras-bouffe and opéra-comique: Orphée aux Enfers, La Belle Hélène, La Vie parisienne, La Périchole, Le Voyage dans la Lune, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, etc
Portrait published to mark his death.