Beethoven beim Spaziergang - Zeichnung nach einer Darstellung von Joseph Daniel Böhm aus dem Jahr 1819/1820, Mitte 19. Jahrhundert

In 1923 the Berlin auction house Henrici auctioned off this pencil drawing, which Theodor Frimmel considered an original drawing by Vienna artist Joseph Daniel Böhm (1794-1865). Around the 1820s, Böhm had drawn Ludwig van Beethoven on one of his walks and then engraved the drawing on a small silver plate.

This drawing is, however, not the original one but a copy made by an unknown artist. The quite cautious style of the drawing and its overall rather bashful and poorly spontaneous appearance support this assumption. The fact that some details of Böhm's silver plate engraving are missing on the drawing is another piece of evidence.(S.B.)