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Leopold Mozart and His Children Maria Anna and Wolfgang Giving a Concert in Paris

1764
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Recognizing the exceptional musical gifts of his children Nannerl (born 1751) and Wolfgang Amadé (born 1756), the Salzburg court violinist, composer, and teacher Leopold Mozart took them on a three-year tour through Europe, which brought them to Paris between 1763 and April 1764. It was on this occasion that the present engraving was published (after a watercolor today at the Musée Condé, Chantilly). One of the most celebrated works on paper by the portraitist Carmontelle, it exists in several later, though autograph, versions attesting to its early popularity as a work of art—and to that of the child prodigies who commanded Europe’s musical stage. The inscription, though mentioning his father and his sister before the younger Wolfgang Amadeus, who is seated behind a harpsichord, refers to the seven year old as a composer.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Leopold Mozart and His Children Maria Anna and Wolfgang Giving a Concert in Paris
  • Artist: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delafosse (French, Paris 1721–1806 Paris)
  • Artist: After Louis de Carmontelle (French, Paris 1717–1806 Paris)
  • Sitter: Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (German, 1719–1787)
  • Sitter: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian, 1756–1791)
  • Sitter: Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia (Nannerl) Mozart (German, 1751–1829)
  • Date: 1764
  • Medium: Etching and engraving
  • Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 15 3/16 × 9 1/8 in. (38.5 × 23.1 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
  • Object Number: 17.3.756–1354
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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