© Royal College of Music Museum
Leopold Mozart, father of Maria Anna Mozart, virtuoso, aged eleven, and of J.G. Wolfgang Mozart, composer and master aged seven
Jean Baptiste Delafosse
- Art Funded
- 2013
- Dimensions
- 37 x 21 cm
- Bequeathed by
- Martin Guthrie through The Art Fund
This etching compliments the collection of portraits of musicians at the Royal College of Music, in its portrayal of a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, aged seven, performing with his father and sister.
There are several known versions of the subject; this etching is after a watercolour by Louis Carmontelle. Correspondence indicates that Wolfgang's father, Leopold Mozart, purchased a number of impressions of the image to use as gifts when the family toured Europe.
Provenance
Martin Guthrie.
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