Portrait of a musician

Amigoni, Jacopo (1685-1752)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

before 1750

Height:

144.5 cm  (56 7/8 in.)

Width:

104.6 cm  (41 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Venezia (Italia)

School:

Venetian School

Description

"A seated man, probably a composer, holds a large book of music. Musical notation, painted on top of varnish and thought to be a nineteenth-century addition, was lost during restoration. In the foreground are a violin, a violoncello, a trumpet, and a one-keyed flute. The painting was formerly attributed to Allesandro Longhi and thought to be a protrait of Domenico Cimarosa. It is mentioned in "A Negative Contribution to Haydn Iconography: The Longhi Portrait," Haydn Yearbook 2 (1963-64) 64-73 by Hans Lenneberg."

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Violoncello [3582]
Trumpet [4446]
Flute [3955] (one-keyed flute)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Lenneberg, Hans. "A Negative Contribution to Haydn Iconography: The Longhi Portrait." Haydn Yearbook 2 (1963-64) 64-73.

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 256 pa 85. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1719