Portrait of Queen Hortense (Hortense de Beauharnais)

Cottrau, Félix (1799-1852)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1832
Height:
162.0 cm  (63 3/4 in.)
Width:
116.5 cm  (45 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Arenenberg

    Item location

  • Napoleonmuseum Schloss Arenenberg

Description

The portrait shows Hortense de Beauharnais sitting at her pyramid piano with a musical score on the stand (not legible). The portrait was taken at Arenenberg Castle in Switzerland, the home place of Hortense de Beauharnais from 1817 on until her death.

People as subjects

Beauharnais, Hortense de (1783–1837) (Non-musician/dancer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pyramid pianoforte [2306]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1
Photo in the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Photo Archive
image link 2

Bibliographic references

Baldassarre, Antonio. "Music, Painting, and Domestic Life: Hortense de Beauharnais in Arenenberg", Music in Art 23/1-2 (1998) 49-61. RILM 1998-4754.

Mathis, Hans-Peter, ed. La reine Hortense, une femme artiste
(Arenenberg: Napoleon-Museum Arenenberg, 1993).

RIdIM record id

1553