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File:Thirteen-year-old Beethoven.jpg

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Deutsch: Portrait der dreizehnjährige Beethoven, Öl auf Leinwand, Bonner Meister, ca. 1783.
Ελληνικά: Πορτραίτο του δεκατριάχρονου Μπετόβεν από άγνωστο καλλιτέχνη της Βόννης, περ. 1783
English: The painting is described thus: "Ludwig van Beethoven was recognized as a child prodigy. He worked at the age of 13 as organist, pianist/harpsichordist and violist at the court in Bonn, and had published three early piano sonatas. This portrait in oils is the earliest authenticated likeness of Beethoven."
Date circa 1783
Medium oil on canvas
Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Credit line RobertG
Source/Photographer Photograph taken by the author of the painting in Die Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien. 2006-08-24

Licensing

Author's note: while I license the use of my photograph of this painting under GFDL and cc-by-sa-2.5, the painting itself is more than 225 years old, the artist must have been dead well over 100 years, and hence the painting itself is surely in the public domain.

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
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