734356 Pauline Viardot-Garcia (gravure) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Pauline Viardot-Garcia. Illustration for Celebrated Musicians of All Nations by M F S Harvey (Edward Schuberth & Co, et al, c 1900). Pauline Viardot [n矇e Garc穩a] (1821??910) was a leading nineteenth-century French mezzo-soprano, pedagogue, and composer of Spanish descent. From a Spanish opera family, her father Manuel Garcia, her sister, opera singer, Maria Malibran; she married Louis Viardot (1800-83) theatre director and author; adored by Ivan Turgenev; ); Look and Learn / Rosenberg Collection; English, out of copyright.