Allegorical Figure of Music
Allegorical Figure of Music 19th Century by German Painter Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann (1811 – 1889); known for his biblical works of art.
This is a beautiful classical art charcoal illustration with a semi nude female figure that represents the music of the 19th Century.
She is sitting on a marble pedestal draped in a white cloth from her lap to her feet and is looking skyward to her right as the wind blows through her hair and another large cloth that she is holding with her right hand above her right shoulder, that flows behind her head and back.
She is wearing a crown of flowers on her head and behind her to her right, we can see the pipes of an organ.
At the front, to her right on the base of the pedestal is a hand held harp, a triangle, a cello and bow, as well as sheet music that is tucked under the viola.
By her feet to the left of the viola are a pair of cymbals, a horn, a bugle and a recorder or simple flute.
In her left hand which is positioned over her left thigh to the side we can see that she is holding a violin and bow.
Lastly, at the bottom of the pedestal is engraved the word MUSIK in capital letters.
The Allegorical Figure of Music is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org
Eduard was born in Berlin, Germany on December 3, 1811 to Anton Heinrich Bendemann a Jewish banker and Fanny Eleonore Bendemann née von Halle; daughter of Jewish banker Joel Samuel von Halle.
From an early age Eduard demonstrated a talent fo art, and even though at the time sons generally pursued studies and occupations similar or related to their fathers, he was allowed to study art and was enrolled in the art school of German Painter Wilhelm von Schadow (1789 – 1862), located in Düsseldorf, Germany.
In 1828 at the age of 17, he attracted some attention with a painting he did of his grandmother; and in 1830 went on a school trip to Italy, where he would remain for a year and would work in a series of paintings jobs; with people taking notice of his 1832 painting The Jews Mourning in Exile; which was featured in the Berlin art exhibition.
In that same year he also created The Two Girls at the Well and followed that up with Jeremiah amid the Ruins of Jerusalem; and for this piece received a medal in Paris, France in 1837, with his best known work being The Harvest.
In 1838 Eduard was appointed professor of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (founded in 1764); and was commissioned to decorate the three halls of the Dresden Royal Palace with wall paintings; which included the throne room, the tower room, and the tower hall.
This massive undertaking would occupy most of his time for the next 15 year; then from 1859 to 1867 he was the director of the Düsseldorf Academy.