Familie Mozart

Della Croce, Johann Nepomuk (1736-1819) (attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1780-1781
Technique / Medium:
oil
Place of creation:
Salzburg

Additional titles

Mozart family

    Item location

  • Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum
    Mozart-Archiv[Museum inv. no.: F 000.291]

Description

Mozart Family portrait: mother (who died before work was commissioned) pictured in a separate portrait on the wall; Father (with violin, bow, and quill) standing behind fortepiano; Wolfgang and Nannerl (with hands crossing) playing a fortepiano duet; Apollo (with lyre) represented in a niche in the background.

People as subjects

Mozart, Leopold (1719-1787) (Musician portrait)
Mozart, Anna Maria (1720-1778) (Musician portrait)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) (Musician portrait)
Mozart, Maria Anna (1751-1829) (Musician portrait)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pianoforte [2299]
Violin [3573]
Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Cornell University image
image link 2
Wikimedia Commons image

Bibliographic references

Becker, Max. Mozart, sein Leben und seine Zeit: in Texten und Bildern (Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1991). ISBN 3458170502. RILM 2000-37660.

Beck, Eleonora M. "A new reading of the 'Mozart family portrait'", Imago musicae 29 (2017) 159-175. RILM 2017-23707.

RIdIM record id

474