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Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci

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Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci, also known as The Flute Concert, is an 1852 oil-on-canvas history painting by the German painter Adolph Menzel. It depicts Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, playing the flute for an audience at an evening concert in his palace of Sanssouci, capturing a moment of courtly musical life associated with the historical monarch. The painting is held in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1852 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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In Form

Painting, Art Forms
Source Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci (Wikipedia)

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Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, located there.
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1. Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci (Wikipedia)
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence (date)
    is an 1852 oil on canvas history painting
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence (medium)
    oil on canvas history painting by the German painter
  • Lead paragraph, second sentence
    is now in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin
  • Genre reference
    Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci, also known as The Flute Concert, is an 1852 oil-on-canvas history painting by the German painter Adolph Menzel.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci or The Flute Concert is an 1852 oil on canvas history painting by the German painter Adolph Menzel. It depicts Frederick the Great, King of Prussia playing the flute at an evening
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