Alkan, Napoléon. (1826–1906) [Lewenthal, Raymond. (1923–1988)] Cabinet PhotographRare original Pierre Petit cabinet photograph of the French Jewish composer and teacher, one of six children of Alkan Morhange who took their father's first name as their last one, and brother of great piano virtuoso and composer Charles Valentin Alkan. After studying at the Conservatoire de Paris with Pierre Zimmermann, Franois Benoist and Adolphe Adam, in 1850 he won the First Second Grand Prix de Rome. One of extremely few known photographs of