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TitleEngravings, drawings and paintings of Ludwig van Beethoven
A picture of Beethoven
1- 1800
Engraving by Johann Reidel following the drawing by Gandolph Ernst Stainhauser von Treuberg
From real
A picture of Beethoven
2- 1808
Drawing by Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld
From real
A picture of Beethoven
3- 1814
Engraving by Blasius Höfel
following the drawing by
Louis Letronne
From real
A picture of Beethoven
4- August 1814
Original drawing by
Louis Letronne
From real
A picture of Beethoven
5- Drawing by Wilhelm Thöny
A picture of Beethoven
6- Drawing by Wilhelm Thöny
A picture of Beethoven
7- circa 1814 - 1816
Drawing by Gustav Adolph Hippius
From real
A picture of Beethoven
8- 1819
Drawing by Joseph Hochenecker
Probably From real
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9 to 11- Sketches of a piece by August von Kloeber created in 1818.
The oil painting itself has been lost over time
...
From real

12- 1785 - Beethoven at 16 years old, silhouette cutting by Joseph Neesen
From real
       
A picture of Beethoven
13- Drawing by Johann Stefan Decker - 1824
From real
A picture of Beethoven
14- Engraving by Carl Meyer - 1852 following a drawing by Johann Stefan Decker of 1824
A picture of Beethoven
15- 1821
Drawing by Anton Dietrich
for his bust
A picture of Beethoven
16- Beethoven composing the Pastorale - Almanach Der Musikgesellschaft, 1834
       
A picture of Beethoven
17- 1827 - Drawings by Joseph Eduard Teltscher
From real
A picture of Beethoven
18- 1827 - Drawings by Joseph Eduard Teltscher
From real
A picture of Beethoven
19- Mars 1827
Drawing by Joseph Danhauser
From real
A picture of Beethoven
20- March 28th 1827
Joseph Danhauser
From real
       
A picture of Beethoven
21- Beethoven, van Swieten, Lichnowsky, Lobkowitz and Czerny
A picture of Beethoven
22- Beethoven improvises for Mozart (1787). Painting by Hugues Merle. Engraving by Jean Alexandre Allais
A picture of Beethoven
23- Beethoven and Goethe
(1812)
Carl Rohling
A picture of Beethoven
24- Beethoven and the quartet Rasoumowski
       
A picture of Beethoven
25- Beethoven:
the creater
Rudolph Eichstädt - 1899
A picture of Beethoven
26- Liszt and his friends
Joseph Danhauser
(with a bust of Beethoven)
A picture of Beethoven
27- Lithography: Beethoven congratulates the young Liszt (13 avril 1823)
A picture of Beethoven
28- Beethoven playing for Prince Louis Ferdinand
(1882)
       
A picture of Beethoven
29- Listening to Beethoven
Lionello Balestrieri
1900
A picture of Beethoven
30- Drawing
by F. Paterno
A picture of Beethoven
31- Portrait by Carl Jäger
(see also number 75)
A picture of Beethoven
32- Drawing
by Gustav L. de Baranyai
       
A picture of Beethoven
33- Drawing of a portrait of Beethoven
A picture of Beethoven
34- Drawing of a portrait of Beethoven
A picture of Beethoven
35- Lithography
by Albert Newsam
A picture of Beethoven
36- 1910 - Heliogravure
by Hanfstaengl
     
A picture of Beethoven
37- 1927
Thomas Ring
A picture of Beethoven
38- Beethoven:
the genius
A picture of Beethoven
39- 1841 - Lithography
H. Grevedon
A picture of Beethoven
40- Hermann Junker
(many thanks to John)
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