Kunstner	Carl Traugott Riedel  (1769–)     Alternative navne Karl Traugott Riedel Beskrivelse tysk gravør Fødsels- og dødsdato 1769  efter 1832 date QS:P,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9   Fødselssted Lubań Arbejdsperiode ca. mellem 1800 og 1832 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Arbejdssted Leipzig (1803–)  Autoritetsdata : Q30302326 VIAF: 20100391 ISNI: 0000000006935166 GND: 103766316 BNF: 14801419v J9U: 987007308481905171 artist QS:P170,Q30302326
Object type	maleri object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Beskrivelse	Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven
Dato	1801 date QS:P571,+1801-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Teknik	maleri
Samling	UkendtUnknown
Kilde/Fotograf	www.answers.com
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I have never been able to find a source verifying that this picture is authentic. Here is a bit of background. The Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, an authoritative source, gives a picture of an engraving (black and white) that looks rather like this picture. They say it is an engraved portrait made by Riedel "based on an earlier drawing from Vienna portrait artist Gandolph Ernst Stainhauser." You can see this engraving at their website: [1] (and we have a copy of it here on the Commons; see above).

The image above is colored -- who did this? -- and I think it is also much more flattering than the engraving displayed by the Beethoven-Haus (wide eyes, trimmed eyebrows, little smile, rosy cheeks). Could it be a long-post-Beethoven sentimentalized version of the Riedel engraving? Certainly there is precedent for this kind of falsification. And the hypothesis that it is a post-lifetime sentimentalized portrait would explain why it displays a handsome young man when contemporary testimony (see Beethoven-Haus link) tells us that Beethoven was quite ugly.

On the Beethoven page of the English Wikipedia I polled other editors about removing this image from article, and they felt it would be ok, so am gradually removing it from the English Wikipedia, and replacing it with the engraving. I would not presume to edit other Wikipedias. Opus33 (diskussion) 02:41, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Dette er en troværdig, fotografisk gengivelse af et originalt todimensionelt kunstværk. Kopier af kunstværket er offentlig ejendom af følgende grund: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse Værket er også offentlig ejendom i lande og områder, hvor ophavsrettens længde er ophavsmandens levetid plus 100 år eller derunder. Denne skabelon skal kombineres med en licensskabelon for USA, der angiver hvorfor dette værk er offentlig ejendom i USA. Denne fil er blevet identificeret som værende fri for kendte restriktioner under lov om ophavsret, herunder alle relaterede og tilstødende rettigheder. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse Den officielle holdning, som Wikimedia Foundation følger er, at "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain". For yderligere oplysninger, se Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag. Denne fotografiske gengivelse betragtes derfor også som værende offentlig ejendom Vær opmærksom på, at, afhængig af lokale love, kan brug af dette indhold forbydes eller begrænses i dit område. Se Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs.