File talk:Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b.jpg

Date
As I just wrote at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Arthur_Schopenhauer_by_J_Sch%C3%A4fer,_1859b.jpg:

'The date of this photo is given as being March 1859. However, two things lead me to doubt this.

First of all, the Encyclopedia Britannica - a reliable source if anything is - identifies the photo as being from 1855. See https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Schopenhauer

Secondly, this painting of Schopenhauer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schopenhauer.jpg is from 1855, according to that page itself and also according to the article on Schopenhauer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer), and is almost identical to the photo.

I therefore suggest that the photo's date is either changed to 1855 or else we remove reference to the date altogether, so as to get rid of the false information that the photo is from March 1859.'

Matthew Fennell (talk) 01:26, 1 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Actually, the very title of the photo might be a problem because it has 1859 in its title.

Matthew Fennell (talk) 01:34, 1 August 2018 (UTC)