Portrait de Marin Marais

Bouys, André (1656-1740) (workshop of)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1704
Height:
53.0 cm  (20 7/8 in.)
Width:
40.0 cm  (15 3/4 in.)
Height with frame: 71.5 cm.
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Musée de la musique (Paris)
    [Museum inv. no.: E.995.6.44]Formerly at Musée du Louvre, inv. no. 20145.

Description

Portrait of Marin Marais, seated, playing a bass viol resting upon his right leg in guitar-like fashion. An open book of music is at his feet (illegible notation).

People as subjects

Marais, Marin (1656-1728) (Musician)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viola da gamba [3604] (bass viol has seven strings)

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Wikimedia Commons

Bibliographic references

Mirimonde, A. P. de. L'Iconographie musicale sous les rois Bourbons. II (Paris: Picard, 1977) pl. XIV, no. 23. ISBN 2708400169. RILM 1977-145.

RIdIM record id

1082