File:Adolph Menzel - Flötenkonzert Friedrichs des Großen in Sanssouci - Google Art Project.jpg

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Summary

Adolph von Menzel: Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci

Artist



Description	German painter, illustrator, printmaker and lithographer
Date of birth/death	8 December 1815	9 February 1905
Location of birth/death	Wrocław	Berlin
Work location	Berlin
Authority file	: Q164961 VIAF: 34607154 ISNI: 0000000121275116 ULAN: 500018924 LCCN: n50059021 NLA: 36294061 WorldCat

Title

German:

Flötenkonzert Friedrichs des Großen in Sanssouci

Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci

Object type

painting

Description

Middle: Frederick the Great; far right: Johann Joachim Quantz, the king's flute teacher; to his left with a violin and wearing dark clothing: Franz Benda; leftmost in the foreground: Gustav Adolf von Gotter; behind him: Jakob Friedrich von Bielfeld; behind him, looking at the ceiling: Pierre Louis Maupertuis; in the background, sitting on a pink sofa: Wilhelmine of Bayreuth; on her right: Amalie of Prussia with a maid of honor; behind them, Carl Heinrich Graun; the elderly lady behind the music stand: Sophie Caroline; behind her: Egmont of Chasot; at the harpsichord: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Depicted people

Johann Joachim Quantz

Date

from 1850 until 1852

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 142 cm (55.9 in); width: 205 cm (80.7 in)

Collection

Alte Nationalgalerie

	Native name	Alte Nationalgalerie
	Parent institution	National Gallery Berlin
	Location	Bezirk Mitte von Berlin , Germany
	Coordinates	52° 31′ 14.92″ N, 13° 23′ 54.07″ E
	Established	1861
	Authority file	: Q162111 VIAF: 130790367 ISNI: 0000000121578096 LCCN: n92073829 OSM: 3083909 GND: 5298137-X WorldCat

Current location

room 1.05

Accession number

A I 206

Object history

1875: purchased from Bankier Magnus Herrmann, Berlin

Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom right [Adolph Menzel / Berlin 1852]

References

Staatliche Musen zu Berlin. Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 02510858

Source/Photographer

WAFEF2zy8Ym8vQ — Google Arts & Culture

Other versions

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Übersichtsblatt
Modellstudie Prinzessin Wilhelmine

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current	06:33, 8 April 2023	3,543 × 2,433 (6.02 MB)	1970gemini	endschleiart
	11:09, 20 November 2013	3,543 × 2,433 (6.02 MB)	Dcoetzee	Reverted to version as of 07:37, 16 February 2011 - please do not upload over original Google Art Project images, please use a new filename
	18:35, 26 August 2012	3,543 × 2,433 (3.56 MB)	Harpsichord246	Color enhanced
	08:33, 11 September 2011	3,543 × 2,433 (3.36 MB)	Tmtriumph	better contrast
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