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Musicale at the Prellers'

Friedrich Preller the Elder1838

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

This drawing depicts an afternoon or evening soirée hosted by Preller, a renowned German landscape painter, and his wife. The piano is the focus of the domestic social gathering. Among the young women gathered around the instrument are two sisters, Malvina and Olinda (with the eye patch), daughters of a professor of aesthetics, Fredrich Bouterweck. Olinda studied painting with Preller and was very close to the artist’s family. Preller’s sons called her "aunt Olinda," and she appears in several of Preller’s drawings from the 1830s and ’40s, easily identifiable by the eye patch.

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  • Title: Musicale at the Prellers'
  • Creator: Friedrich Preller (German, 1804-1878)
  • Date Created: 1838
  • Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 31.3 x 41.4 cm (12 5/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
  • Provenance: [Julius Böhler]
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.7
  • Medium: graphite
  • Inscriptions: signed, lower center, in graphite: [artist monogram: FP] 1838 [the 8 changed from a 9]
  • Department: Drawings
  • Culture: Germany, 19th century
  • Credit Line: Delia E. Holden Fund
  • Collection: DR - German
  • Accession Number: 1976.7
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