id:			118935
accession number:	1940.1132
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1132
updated:		2025-08-07 20:24:04.361000

Bust of Ludwig van Beethoven, 1827. Josef Kriehuber (Austrian, 1800–1876). Lithograph; platemark: 16.7 x 17.1 cm (6 9/16 x 6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1940.1132

title:				Bust of Ludwig van Beethoven
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creation date:			1827
creation date earliest:		1827
creation date latest:		1827
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
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culture:	Austria
technique:	lithograph
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Josef Kriehuber (Austrian, 1800–1876)  - artist

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measurements: Platemark: 16.7 x 17.1 cm (6 9/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Imprinted on recto: "BEETHOVEN/GEB. den 16 December 1770 zh BONN/GEST. 26 März  1827 WIEN/Wien Tobias Haslinger/Lithogr. bei Fes. Trentsensky"
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	inscription:	Watermark: "Gh. K. REAL"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	[C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York, NY] to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: ?-1940
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 30, 1940-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography : commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948.</em> [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 46
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n53

	Steblin, Rita. “The Newly Discovered Hochenecker Portrait of Beethoven (1819): ‘Das Ähnlichste Bildnis Beethovens.’” <em>Journal of the American Musicological Society</em> 45, no. 3 (1992).
	page number: 	p. 476, repr. p. 486, fig. 8
	url:		https://doi.org/10.2307/831715

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