An Unknown Authentic Portrait of Gioachino Rossini

Lubomír Sršeň

Pages	78-96
Keywords	Gioachino Rossini – Antonio d’Aquino, duca di Casarano – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany – iconography – Naples – nineteenth century Italian painting – National Museum in Prague
Citation	SRŠEŇ, Lubomír. An Unknown Authentic Portrait of Gioachino Rossini. Musicalia. Journal of the Czech Museum of Music / Časopis Českého muzea hudby . Prague: National Museum, 2013, 5(1-2), 78-96. ISSN 1803-7828 (Print), 2533-5634 (Online). Also available from: https://www.nm.cz/en/periodicals/mjotcmom/5-1-2/an-unknown-authentic-portrait-of-gioachino-rossini

Musicalia. Journal of the Czech Museum of Music / Časopis Českého muzea hudby | 2013/5/1-2

This article presents an unknown aquarelle portrait of the composer Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) deposited in the National Museum in Prague under inventory number H2-61 001/28. The artist is identified as Antonio d’Aquino, duca di Casarano, a Neapolitan nobleman and friend of the composer. It was most likely in Naples in 1839 that d’Aquino painted this amateurish portrait, which was reproduced soon thereafter as a copper engraving.

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