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Does Hogarth depict Old Fritz truthfully with a crooked beak? : the pictures familiar to us from Pesne to Menzel don't show this

Krysmanski, Bernd

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Abstract

Did you know that Frederick the Great had a sharply curved nose and thought himself as ugly as a scarecrow? You didn’t know? No wonder, because all historically transmitted, official portraits which are still depicted in history books today show the face of Old Fritz with a classically straightened nose and also in a highly embellished, idealised way. These portraits were more or less freely invented by contemporary artists, such as the Prussian court painter Antoine Pesne. In the 19th century, Adolph Menzel still portrayed Frederick II with a straightened nose, although he must have known that he had a crooked one. Only one artist showed the Prussian king as he really was, namely with an aquiline nose and playing the flute in front of a symbol of homosexuality: the Englishman William Hogarth in a painting completed in 1744, which is now on display in the National Gallery, London, and which was widely disseminated in the engraving by Simon François Ravenet after Hogarth.

Document type: Article
Date: 2022
Version: Primary publication
Date Deposited: 08 Dec 2022 09:44
Faculties / Institutes: Research Project, Working Group > Individuals
DDC-classification: Painting
Controlled Keywords: Hogarth, William, Friedrich <II., Preußen, König>, Bildnismalerei
Subject (classification): Painting
Countries/Regions: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Great Britain, Ireland
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