Untitled [Beethoven]

Mähler, Willibrord Joseph (1778-1860)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1804-1805
Height:
117.5 cm  (46 1/4 in.)
Width:
90.0 cm  (35 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Wien

    Item location

  • Wien Museum
    Beethoven Pasqualatihaus[Museum inv. no.: HM I.N. 104650 99]

Description

Untitled portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven presenting the composer sitting with a lyre-guitar in his left hand. The background is highly stylized, combining Romantic features (such as the cliffs with trees and the dark storm clouds) and Classicist attributes (such as the circular Greek temple).

People as subjects

Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) (Composer portrait)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre guitar [3247]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Comini, Alessandra. The changing image of Beethoven: A study in mythmaking (New York: Rizzoli, 1987). ISBN 0847806170.

Squire, William Barclay. "Beethoven's appearance", Music & Letters 8/2 (1927) 122-125.

Steblin, Rita. "The newly discovered Hochenecker portrait of Beethoven (1819): 'Das ähnlichste Bildnis Beethovens'", Journal of the American Musicological Society 45/3 (Autumn 1992) 468-497. RILM 1992-1267. DOI: 10.2307/831715. http://www.jstor.org/stable/831715

RIdIM record id

4558