Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven

Bollinger, Friedrich Wilhelm (1777–1852)

Höfel, Blasius (1792–1863) (after a work of)

Letronne, Louis René (1790–1842) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1840

Height:

19.2 cm  (7 9/16 in.)

Width:

12.3 cm  (4 13/16 in.)

portrait 9.5 × 7 cm

Technique / Medium:

stipple engraving

Place of creation:

Zwickau (Deutschland)

Description

Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger made the print after the engraving by Blasius Höfel, who in turn made his image after a drawing by Louis René Letronne.
Letronne lived in Vienna between approximately 1805 and 1817, and during the Vienna Congress created portraits of the numerous monarchs and statesmen, who had come to the imperial city to visit this event. During this time, he also drew Ludwig van Beethoven. His portrait was supposed to be the draft for a copper engraving, which should have been done by the Vienna engraver Blasius Höfel. But Höfel thought Letronne's drawing was not a really good drawing of Beethoven. So he asked the composer to sit for him again. Beethoven agreed and Höfel revised Letronne's portrait. The Vienna publishing house Artaria published this portrait as copper engraving in 1820. Bollinger's version was published ca. 1840 by Gebr. Schumann, in Zwickau.

People as subjects

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

Iconclass

48C713
portrait of composer

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RIdIM record id

5014