Portrait Photograph by Walery of Paris, inscribed on the mount to the Comtesse de Berlaiment, and signed ‘Marie Jaëll’ by JAELL, Marie

Undated [c.1890?]. Overall size 8 x 6 inches, light foxing to the mount, minor blemishes at the corners. Marie (Trautmann) Jaëll (1846 –1925) , French pianist, composer, and teacher. She was the first pianist to perform all the piano sonatas of Beethoven in Paris. She did scientific studies of hand techniques in piano playing and attempted to replace traditional drilling with systematic piano methods.