The last hours of Mozart

O'Neil, Henry Nelson (1817-1880)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

mid-19th century

Height:

108.0 cm  (42 1/2 in.)

Width:

143.5 cm  (56 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

The Victorian genre painter Henry Nelson O’Neil has musicians and mourners gathered around a strikingly fair Mozart on his deathbed ... The musicians in his painting of Mozart are apparently in mixed states of engagement with the music and concern for the dying composer. Mozart’s wife and sister-in-law provide comfort, and Süssmayr sits attentively, quill in hand, presumably having received instructions up to the last moment. --Alan Davison (see bibliographical reference)

People as subjects

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) (Composer)

Iconclass

48B26
artist on his deathbed

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violoncello [3582]
Organ [2266]
Violin [3573]

Musical works

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -- Requiemillegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Davison, Alan. "Painting for a Requiem: Mihály Munkácsy’s The last moments of Mozart (1885)", Early music 39/1 (February 2011) 79-92, illus. 2. RILM 2011-33902. DOI: 10.1093/em/caq112

RIdIM record id

4279

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