Seniman/Pembuat	Carl Traugott Riedel  (1769–)     Nama alternatif Karl Traugott Riedel Deskripsi German engraver Tanggal kelahiran/kematian 1769  after 1832 date QS:P,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9   Tempat kelahiran Lubań Periode pengerjaan circa 1800 - circa 1832 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Tempat pengerjaan Leipzig (1803–)  Pengawasan otoritas : Q30302326 VIAF: 20100391 ISNI: 0000000006935166 GND: 103766316 BNF: 14801419v J9U: 987007308481905171 artist QS:P170,Q30302326
Object type	lukisan object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Deskripsi	Potret Ludwig van Beethoven
Tanggal	1801 date QS:P571,+1801-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Bahan	painting
Koleksi	Tak diketahuiUnknown
Sumber/Fotografer	www.answers.com
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I have never been able to find a source verifying that this picture is authentic. Here is a bit of background. The Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, an authoritative source, gives a picture of an engraving (black and white) that looks rather like this picture. They say it is an engraved portrait made by Riedel "based on an earlier drawing from Vienna portrait artist Gandolph Ernst Stainhauser." You can see this engraving at their website: [1] (and we have a copy of it here on the Commons; see above).

The image above is colored -- who did this? -- and I think it is also much more flattering than the engraving displayed by the Beethoven-Haus (wide eyes, trimmed eyebrows, little smile, rosy cheeks). Could it be a long-post-Beethoven sentimentalized version of the Riedel engraving? Certainly there is precedent for this kind of falsification. And the hypothesis that it is a post-lifetime sentimentalized portrait would explain why it displays a handsome young man when contemporary testimony (see Beethoven-Haus link) tells us that Beethoven was quite ugly.

On the Beethoven page of the English Wikipedia I polled other editors about removing this image from article, and they felt it would be ok, so am gradually removing it from the English Wikipedia, and replacing it with the engraving. I would not presume to edit other Wikipedias. Opus33 (bicara) 02:41, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Ini adalah suatu perbanyakan fotografis dari sebuah karya seni dua dimensi. Karya seni tersebut berada pada domain publik karena alasan berikut: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Berkas ini telah diidentifikasi bebas dari pembatasan menurut hukum hak cipta termasuk semua hak terkait dan relevan. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse Posisi resmi Wikimedia Foundation adalah bahwa "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain". Untuk detilnya, lihat Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag. Oleh karena itu, perbanyakan fotografis ini juga dianggap berada pada domain publik. Mohon diperhatikan bahwa hukum lokal mungkin saja melarang atau membatasi penggunaan kembali berkas ini di wilayah hukum anda. Lihat Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs.