"Franz Liszt Fantasizing at the Piano" by Josef Danhauser (1840)
Oil on panel.
Current location: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung PresBischer Kulturbesitz, Alte Nationalgalerie F.V. 42
Liszt playing a piano by Conrad Graf (who commissioned the painting). The imagined gathering are seated: L-R Alexandre Dumas père, George Sand, Franz Liszt (at piano), Marie d’Agoult (on floor); standing L-R Hector Berlioz or Victor Hugo, Niccolò Paganini, Gioachino Rossini. A portrait of Byron is on the wall, a statue of Joan of Ark on far left and a bust of Beethoven is on the piano.
Josef Danhauser (1805 - 1845)
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
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