File:HaydnPlaying.jpg

anonymous: Joseph Haydn playing quartets   (  )
Artist	anonymous       Alternative names Unknown authorUnknown author Description artist Authority file : Q4233718 VIAF: 100627125 ISNI: 0000000423864522 ULAN: 500125274 MusicBrainz: f731ccc4-e22a-43af-a747-64213329e088 GND: 4245422-0 artist QS:P170,Q4233718
Title	Joseph Haydn playing quartets
Object type	painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date	later 19th-early 20th centuries
Medium	painting
Collection	StaatsMuseum, Vienna
Source/Photographer	painting from the StaatsMuseum, Vienna
Permission (Reusing this file)	Public domain
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Here is the museum page that describes the work:

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It's by an artist named Julius Schmid who lived from 1854 to 1935. (Haydn died in 1809.) This site: [2] offers useful commentary. The author points out the very odd viola, and that the people are dressed in historically inaccurate style.

I know this is just my opinion, but to me the portrait looks really sentimentalized and unreal. It's fine for use in ornamenting record jackets and concert programs, but I would recommend against using it in an encyclopedia; readers might mistake for an actual painting of Haydn.

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