File:Beethoven Riedel 1801.jpg
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artist QS:P170,Q30302326 |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven |
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Date |
1801 date QS:P571,+1801-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection | UnknownUnknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | www.answers.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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What do we know about this image?
I'm having trouble figuring out the provenance of this picture.
The Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, an authoritative source, gives a picture of an engraving (black and white) that looks rather like this picture. They say it is an engraved portrait made by Riedel "based on an earlier drawing from Vienna portrait artist Gandolph Ernst Stainhauser." You can see this engraving (overwritten by a watermark, so we can't use it) at their website: [1][dead link].
The image we are using is colored -- who did this? -- and I think it is also much more flattering than the engraving displayed by the Beethoven-Haus. Could it be a long-post-Beethoven sentimentalized version of the Riedel engraving? Certainly there is plenty of precedent for this kind of falsification. And the hypothesis that it is a post-lifetime sentimentalized portrait would explain why it displays a handsome young man when contemporary testimony (see Beethoven-Haus link) tells us Beethoven was pretty darn ugly.
I am stuck, and input from experts would be most welcome. Opus33 (talk) 02:41, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
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Orientation | Normal |
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Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows |
File change date and time | 23:09, 29 November 2010 |
Color space | sRGB |