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| 2008年03月15日(土) | 速報 モーツァルトの肖像画発見のニュ−ス！ |
ロンドンのザ・タイムズのスクープ（？）
数年前のベルリン絵画館のものはガセだったようだが
今回は、クリフ・アイゼンが太鼓判を押しているようなので
間違いないのでしょう。たぶん（… (＾＾；)）
＞邦語記事抜粋
モーツァルトの新たな肖像画を発見、赤いコートが決め手
【ロンドン＝本間】英メディアは１４日、
モーツァルトの新たな肖像画が見つかったと伝えた。
ロンドン・キングスカレッジのクリフ・アイゼン教授が確認したもので、
モーツァルトの死後発見された肖像画としては最も重要とみられている。
肖像画は赤いコートを着て、かつらをかぶった横向きの構図で、
縦４７センチ、横３５センチ。
教授の調査によると、コートの形状が、モーツァルトが１７８２年に
手紙に記したコートとほぼ一致したという。
肖像画は８３年にオーストリアの宮廷画家によって描かれ、
モーツァルト家に近い一族が所有していたと見られている。
モーツァルトの死去まで１０年間の肖像画は極めて少ないこともあり、
新たに見つかった肖像画には約２００万ポンド（約４億円）の保険が
かけられたという。（2008年3月15日19時17分 読）
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20080315-OYT1T00487.htm?from=main3
＠ そのソースがこちらです。↓
（写真画像もあります）
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From The Times March 14, 2008
True face of Mozart revealed
A portrait of Mozart painted in 1783, during his early years in Vienna when he was in buoyant mood after his marriage to Constanze
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His image in curled wig, embroidered red tunic and lace ruff stares out from kitsch portraits, decorative porcelain and chocolate boxes without number, but nobody really knew what Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart looked like – until now.
To the great excitement of musical scholars, two previously-unknown oil portraits painted from life– and which can be traced back to a close friend of the composer’s father – have been discovered.
They were identified by Cliff Eisen, Professor of music history at King’s College London, who has found documentary evidence that links them to letters written by Mozart and his father, Leopold.
One was painted in 1783, during the composer’s early years in Vienna when he was in buoyant mood after his marriage to Constanze.
Measuring about 19in by 14in (47x35cm), it is by Joseph Hickel, painter to the imperial court.
It is now considered so important that it has been insured for £2 million.
The second shows the child prodigy composer with his sister Nannerl, around 1764, when he was about eight.
Professor Eisen has linked the distinctive red coat with mother-of-pearl worn by the subject of the 1783 portrait to a letter that Mozart sent to one of his patrons, Baroness Martha Elisabeth von Waldstätten, in 1782.
“As for the beautiful red coat that tickles my fancy so dreadfully, I’d be grateful if you could let me know where I can get it and how much it costs, as I’ve forgotten. I was so taken by its beauty that I didn’t notice the price,” he wrote. “I really must have a coat like that, as it’s worth it just for the buttons that I’ve been hankering after for some time.
. . They’re mother-of-pearl with some white stones round the edge and a beautiful yellow stone in the centre.”
Shortly afterwards, he wrote again “to thank your Grace for having immediately taken so much trouble over the beautiful coat.”
The other portrait shows Mozart with his sister wearing elegant English clothes that their father mentioned in letters, noting how fine his children looked in them.
Leopold picked up such outfits on their tour of London in the 1760s, when the boy Mozart wowed audiences including George III and Queen Charlotte.
Both paintings, which will be revealed at a London conference this weekend, were acquired by an American collector from descendants of Johann Lorenz Hagenauer, Leopold’s close friend, banker and landlord. The two families had children of similar ages and diaries record repeated visits.Professor Eisen said: “Considering their professional and personal relations, it is only to be expected, perhaps, that some items once owned by the Mozarts, or items that passed through their hands, might have ended up with the Hagenauers.”
The romanticised image of Mozart used on the wrappers of the chocolate balls that bear his name was painted 18 years after his death – by someone who had not seen him for 36 years.
