File:Clevelandart 1988.59.jpg
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Summary
Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck
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| Artist |
Jean-Antoine Houdon |
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| Title |
Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck |
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| Description |
A well-known composer of the 1700s, Gluck reformed opera by bringing unprecedented simplicity and sincerity to his music and staging, qualities shared by Houdon’s bust. This portrait, by depicting Gluck’s pockmarked face, was perceived as a natural and truthful representation. Yet, he would never have appeared publicly with unkempt hair and an open collar, which constituted the standard for representing an artist. |
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| Date | 1770 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Terracotta | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 49.5 x 40 x 28.5 cm (19 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.); with base: 64 x 39.3 x 28.1 cm (25 3/16 x 15 1/2 x 11 1/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
European Painting and Sculpture |
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| Accession number |
1988.59 |
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| Place of creation | France, 18th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
 
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This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| current | 14:19, 21 January 2019 | | 2,601 × 3,400 (4.18 MB) | Madreiling | pattypan 18.02 |
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