When Frédéric Chopin, starting his international career, visited the music festival at Aachen in 1834, he was portraited by Jan Willem Pieneman (1779‒1853), Royal painter, director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and chief of the Academy of Art (J. W. Pieneman, Portrait F. Chopin, age 24, oil/ wood, 22 x 27 cm, sign., officially sigell. by town of Amsterdam). The young man got the chance to present himself with some of his own works. The reaction was enthusiastic. The new portrait also won the sympathies of the public, since it was understanding of the curious situation of the young aspirant full of hope. At this time an objective picture was still possible, since the ideal picture of F. Chopin was just in the beginning of his career. The idealization which comes near to the romantic stereotype of genius in disease is shown in detail.