Poetry and music

Boucher, François (1703-1770)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1750-1752

Height:

217.2 cm  (85 1/2 in.)

Width:

96.5 cm  (38 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

In the upper scene (poetry) a small boy in a landscape writes on a scroll. A wind instrument and a lyre lie on the ground in front of him. Two small recorders, lying with these instruments have been painted over, but are visible by means of infrared photography. In the lower scene (music) a similar child in a landscape plays a wind instrument and reads from a music book. A violin rests on the ground.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501] (upper scene)
Wind instruments [3730] (upper scene)
Wind instruments [3730] (lower scene)
Violin [3573] (lower scene)

Musical works

legible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1
image link 2

Bibliographic references

Paintings in The Frick Collection: French, Italian and Spanish (New York: The Frick Collection, 1968) vol. 2.

RIdIM record id

1660