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A brown monochrome print featuring a portrait of a person with a large, curly wig holding a book. Above the portrait are illustrations of a peach, a halved peach, a butterfly, and a bunch of grapes.
L'Estro Armonico
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

L'Estro Armonico

Artist Jiri Anderle (Czech, born 1936)
Date1988
MediumSoft ground etching
Dimensions19 1/4 x 13 1/8 in. (48.9 x 33.3 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1995.27.72
Collections
Visual DescriptionA brown monochrome print featuring a portrait of a person with a large, curly wig holding a book. Above the portrait are illustrations of a peach, a halved peach, a butterfly, and a bunch of grapes.
A brown monochrome print showing a portrait of a man wearing a large wig at the bottom. The space above them features detailed illustrations of various flowers, a butterfly, a bird, and a spiraled seashell.
Preludium
Jiri Anderle
1988
A monochrome print of a seated woman wearing a textured dress with a ruffled neckline. Below her are illustrations of a cluster of grapes, a round fruit, an open-winged butterfly, and a small bird.
Adagio pour Marquise de Pompadour
Jiri Anderle
1988
A print of a man in an 18th-century wig and cravat. A dense arrangement of large flowers, grapes, and peaches floats above his head, accompanied by two butterflies on the left and a perched bird on the right.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Jiri Anderle
1988
A brown monochrome print featuring a portrait of a man wearing a wig and cravat. Above him are a rose, a butterfly, and four overlapping female side-profile faces. The name "Joseph Haydn" is written at the bottom.
Menuetto
Jiri Anderle
1988
A print featuring a large portrait of a spectacled, curly-haired man beside a fainter woman's face. Above them are a sketched landscape with a dark tree, a large lilac flower cluster, and a butterfly.
Gefror'ne Tranen
Jiri Anderle
1988
A print of a nude woman with hands over her chest and groin, standing beside a heavily detailed, decaying skeletal figure with exposed anatomy. Below them rests a halved pomegranate with red seeds and a cluster of grapes.
Madchen und Tod
Jiri Anderle
1983
A monochrome print of a man in a large wig and ruffled cravat. Above him are a smaller portrait of a woman and a detailed cluster of lilies. The text "G.F. HANDEL" is at the bottom.
Vivace
Jiri Anderle
1988
A print of a man with dark hair, head tilted slightly upward, holding a large woven basket overflowing with grapes and round fruits. The person's arms cradle the bottom of the basket, with draped fabric visible near the lower right. Based on Boy with a Basket of Fruit by Caravaggio.
Ragazzo con Canestro di Frutta
Jiri Anderle
1982
A print of a person with voluminous hair holding a lute. Sheet music is draped below the instrument. To the right is a vase filled with flowers and a small pile of fruit, including pears and grapes. After a painting by Caravaggio
Lute Player
Jiri Anderle
1982
A print in two sections. The top shows a draped woman holding a child who grasps a cluster of grapes. The bottom displays a sequence of overlapping profile faces that progressively tilt upward from left to right.
Gloria
Jiri Anderle
1988
A print on an older document with Latin texts. A large cluster of grapes hangs centrally. Three faces are sketched across the bottom, and a rectangular emblem containing an eye inside a triangle sits in the top right.
Oratio
Jiri Anderle
1987
A print split horizontally. The upper section features two sketches of a youth wearing a leafy wreath holding grapes, above two peach-colored fruits. The dark lower panel contains a chaotic grouping of deeply shaded, skeletal, and flayed figures. The image of the youth is after Caravaggio.
Bacchino Malato
Jiri Anderle
1984

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