Only Connect - Ludwig Van Beethoven <> Jelly D'Aranyi

How are these sitters connected?

 Ludwig van Beethoven by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1823) NPG D13759

Jelly D'Aranyi by Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume 1920s? NPG 5735

The connection
Jelly d’Aranyi was Joseph Joachim’s great niece. She wrote ‘he could make Beethoven seem simple’, because ‘the secret was to trust Beethoven’.

Find out more about Van Beethoven connections with co-curator Peter Sheppard Skaerved

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