This tomb of the Italian composer, Vincenzo Bellini, was erected in the 11th division of the Cemetery of Père Lachaise in Paris, in April 1838 ( Le Siècle, 23 April 1838, p.3, "Monument de Bellini", by Louis Viardot). Marochetti collaborated on it with his friend, the architect, Abel Blouet. Originally it consisted of the cippus, which is still seen there today, with its roundel relief portrait of Bellini, and the names of his operas inscribed on it, and in front of this, seated on the grave slab, a figure of the "Angel of Music", freestanding in stone. This seated angel, its inclined  head crowned with cypress, clasped a lyre to its breast. In 1876, Bellini's remains were taken for reinterment in his birthplace, Catania, in Sicily. It is likely that the angel was damaged in this process. It is no longer present on the tomb today. There is however a record of the figure. This is a red chalk drawing executed by Louis de Rudder in preparation for a lithograph, which is now in a private collection. This drawing appears to give an accurate impression of the figure. (see seprate entry)