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Stefaan Missinne: Mozart’s Portrait on a French Box of Sweets

Stefaan Missinne: Mozart’s Portrait on a French Box of Sweets, Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2021, 120 p.

Stefaan Missinne
Mozart’s Portrait on a French Box of Sweets
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A portrait miniature of a cherubic boy with a wig was discovered in Salzburg in 2018. It is mounted on a bonbonnière made of papier-mâché and tortoiseshell. The provenance of the box of sweets is Paris. Could this be a portrait of W. A. Mozart from Versailles? The detective trail leads to Salzburg, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Laboratory testing authenticates the painting and the box. Stefaan Missinne discovers the „smoking gun“ in the silver frame. The guilloche pattern is the linking orphic attribute. Facial biometrics of the boy confirm it is a ten-year-old. Mozart was ten while in Paris in 1766. The Belgian author endorses the bonbonnière as a unique Louis XV box of sweets, suggesting that it is a tribute to W. A. Mozart as an Austrian child prodigy.

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