Charles GOUNOD. Photograph with autograph music signed; 16.5 x 10.5 cm on cardboard with the Benque & C° mark. Beautiful portrait by Benque, with on the back 4 bars of music from Redemption, on the words: "au chemin du Calvaire", with autograph signature and date, "20 mars / 83". Attached is a L.A.S, 12 November 1855, to the music publisher Meissonnier (1 p. in-8 headed Ville de Paris, Écoles Communales, Direction de l'Orphéon, address), requesting 100 copies of Clapisson's chorus, Aux armes!, "for my great sessions at the Palais de l'Industrie"; and the printed score Oh! That we two were maying, song (London, Duff & Stewart,1871), with dedication a.s. to my little friend Marianne Viardot. Ch. Gounod Monday 12 July / 75 ".