Wolfgang-amadeus-mozart_1.jpg
Summary
Barbara Krafft : Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
label QS:Lde,"Bildnis von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
label QS:Lru,"Портрет Вольфганга Амадея Моцарта"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
label QS:Lcs,"České a moravské malířky portrétů"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
This posthumous portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was painted by Barbara Kraft at the request of Joseph Sonnleithner in 1819, long after Mozart died. Sonnleithner, who was making a "collection of portraits in oils of well-known composers" (Deutsch) wrote to Mozart's still-living sister Maria Anna ("Nannerl"), asking her to lend a picture to Kraft (a well-known artist working in Salzburg). Here is part of Nannerl's reply:
Deutsch identifies the three pictures as:
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Depicted people | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 1819 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Object history |
1819: commissioned by Joseph Sonnleithner
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References | https://www.praguepost.com/culture/mozart-portrait-by-barbara-krafft | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Deutsch, Otto Erich (1965) Mozart: A Documentary Biography . Stanford: Stanford University Press. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Licensing
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Assessments
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on Vietnamese Wikipedia for
7 September 2023
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