The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

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
  • ?-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
  • 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
  • {{cite web|title=Bust of Ludwig van Beethoven|url=false|author=Josef Kriehuber|year=1827|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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