Musicale at the Prellers'

Preller, Friedrich (1804-1878)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1838
Height:
31.3 cm  (12 5/16 in.)
Width:
41.4 cm  (16 5/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
graphite on paper

    Item location

  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 1976.7]

Description

Four young women cluster around a piano while a fifth plays, reading from music. The piano is wing-shaped, in the style of such makers as Conrad Graf. The player appears to depress the leftmost of three pedals.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pianoforte [2299]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

1782