Johann Kupetzky (Jan Kupecký) (1667 Bösing - 1740 Nuremberg) attr; Portrait of the Viennese court musician Johann Zetz with tenor recorder Kupetzky effectively depicts the imperial musician in a red jacket and red and blue cap against a dark, neutral background. The painting, with its exciting diagonal composition and vividly characterising modelling of the figure, is probably the most "classical" portrait of a recorder player, as Zetz has depicted him here both self-confidently and with seriousness and joy of playing during a performance. Johann Kupetzky (also Kupecky, Kupezky or Jan Kupecký in Czech) probably created eight replicas of the portrait around 1720, one of which is in the Szépmuvészeti Múzeum in Budapest. The prolific, important Baroque portraitist enjoyed an artistic education at the Academy in Vienna before moving to Rome in 1686, where he had his own studio for 22 years. Prince Adam of Liechtenstein called him back to Vienna in 1709. There he quickly became successful as a portrait painter of the courtly circles around Emperor Joseph I and his successor Charles VI, as well as the European aristocracy. Due to hostility because of his non-Catholic faith, he moved to Nuremberg in 1723, where he remained a sought-after portrait painter of the high nobility. Oil on canvas, double; 83 cm x 64 cm. Frame. Attributed to Johann Kupetzky or Jan Kupecký (1667 - 1740). Oil on canvas, relined.