Portret van Frederica Louise Wilhelmina van Oranje-Nassau (1770-1819)

Tischbein, Friedrich (1750-1812)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1788

Height:

210.0 cm  (82 11/16 in.)

Width:

165.0 cm  (64 15/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

A woman (Princess Louise of Orange) holding a gathering of music tied with two ribbons stands next to a clavichord, with an open music book showing a caption beginning with the capital letter S followed by several other letters (perhaps "Sonata"), and another closed music book behind it with a semi-legible title page reading "tes / forte / esse / Louise" resting on the music rack of the clavichord. The Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD) has identified the composer's name "Colizzi" on the title page of the score, and has also identified the instrument maker as "Gabriel Guillebard / La Haye 1788"

People as subjects

Frederica Louise Wilhelmina, Princess of Orange-Nassau (1770--1819) (Musician portrait)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Clavichord [2232]

Musical works

Colizzi, Johann Andreasillegible music notation
One score on the clavichord has a semi-legible title page reading "tes / forte / esse / Louise" which could possibly represent one of the collections of "Sonates pour le Clavecin ou Pianoforte" by Johan Andreas Colizzi (cf. Eitner, Quellen-Lexikon), who in the 1770s "seems to have moved to The Hague, where he taught Princess Louise of Orange" (Grove Music Online, s.v. "Colizzi, Johann Andreas") and may have written this collection of sonatas for "Princesse Louise"

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Martin-Mery, Gilberte. L'art et la musique: Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, 30 mai-30 septembre 1969 (Bordeaux: Delmas, 1969) 56, no. 100, pl. 40. RILM 1969-99.

Roland-Michel, Marianne. "À propos d'un portrait par Tischbein au musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux", Revue du Louvre (1973) 173-178.

RIdIM record id

2374