The singing party

Mercier, Philippe (1689-1760) (attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1732-1760
Height:
73.1 cm  (28 3/4 in.)
Width:
92.1 cm  (36 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    Gift of Duncan Phillips[Museum inv. no.: 1952.4.2]Attributed in ridim_original/RCMI Inventory #1 to an unknown British painter.

Description

Four men and a boy gathered around a harpsichord. Three men and the boy sing (one of the men beats time);the other man plays a bassoon. The bassoonist and two singers read music over the harpsichordist's shoulder; the boy and one of the men have their own music books.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bassoon [3795]
Harpsichord [2251]

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

181