Gustave Dugazon

In 1806, he obtained the first second Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Hero, written to the lyrics by Saint-Victor.

He wrote Le Chevalier d'industrie in 1818 in collaboration with Louis-Barthélémy Pradher, who was a piano teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris.

His tunes, melodies, romances, nocturnes, fantasies, and other quadrilles of contradances pleased the audience at a time when these genres were in fashion.

[3] The portraitist depicts Dugazon as a "figure" of the Opéra comique in the early 19th century.

The painter placed Dugazon in front of a pianoforte on which a sheet music, two books with green covers, and an inkwell remind us that he is a composer.