The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 22, 2023

Bust of Ludwig van Beethoven

1827

Josef Kriehuber

(Austrian, 1800–1876)

Austria

Lithograph

Platemark: 16.7 x 17.1 cm (6 9/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1940.1132

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Imprinted on recto: "BEETHOVEN/GEB. den 16 December 1770 zh BONN/GEST. 26 März 1827 WIEN/Wien Tobias Haslinger/Lithogr. bei Fes. Trentsensky"

Inscription

Watermark: "Gh. K. REAL"

Provenance
?-1940
[C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York, NY] to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
December 30, 1940-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography : commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Mentioned: p. 46 archive.org
Steblin, Rita. “The Newly Discovered Hochenecker Portrait of Beethoven (1819): ‘Das Ähnlichste Bildnis Beethovens.’” Journal of the American Musicological Society 45, no. 3 (1992). p. 476, repr. p. 486, fig. 8 doi.org
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1940.1132