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Source Description
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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Document identity
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148826
label
Musicale at the Prellers'
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
148826
contentType
drawing
title
Musicale at the Prellers'
description
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.
date
1838
citation
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79929378
creators
11958
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 31.3 x 41.4 cm (12 5/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
cul
Germany, 19th century
accession
1976.7
Source extras
tec
graphite
tombstone
Musicale at the Prellers', 1838. Friedrich Preller (German, 1804–1878). Graphite; sheet: 31.3 x 41.4 cm (12 5/16 x 16 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund, 1976.7
supportMaterials
description
cream(3) wove paper (J Whatman Turkey Mill), discolored to yellow-brown, laid down on gray wove paper; metallic paper strips mounted to perimeter
collection
DR - German
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower center, in graphite: [artist monogram: FP] 1838 [the 8 changed from a 9]
creditline
Delia E. Holden Fund
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2026-05-29 07:38:39.301000
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148826
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Drawings
coll
DR - German
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graphite
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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