La Barre and other musicians

Bouys, André (1656-1740)

Levrac-Tournières, Robert (1667-1752) (formerly attributed to)

Troy, François de (1645-1730) (formerly attributed to)

Rigaud, Hyacinthe (1659-1743) (formerly attributed to)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1710

Height:

160.0 cm  (63 in.)

Width:

127.0 cm  (50 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

One man holding a viol, one man holding an ivory flute, and three other men. Two open books of music are on the table. According to some sources, this is a group portrait of Michel de La Barre (standing), Marin Marais, Antoine Fourqueray, Jean Hotteterre and Jacques Hotteterre. Some scholars believe the subjects of the painting are other persons, but the National Gallery description supports the La Barre identification.

People as subjects

La Barre, Michel de (1675-1745) (Musician portrait)
Marais, Marin (1656-1728) (Musician portrait)
Forqueray, Antoine (1672-1745) (Musician portrait)
Hotteterre, Jacques (1673-1763) (Musician portrait)
Hotteterre, Jean (1677-1720) (Musician portrait)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viola da gamba [3604]
Transverse flute [4093] (Two wooden flutes and one ivory flute)

Musical works

La Barre, Michel de -- Troisième livre de trios, pour les violons, flutes et hautbois, mêlés de sonates pour la flute traversièrelegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Oleskiewicz, Mary. "The hole truth and nothing but the truth: The resolution of a problem in flute iconography", Early music (ISSN: 0306-1078) 29/1 (February 2001) 56-59. RILM 2001-575. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3519088

Martin-Mery, Gilberte. L'art et la musique: Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, 30 mai-30 septembre 1969 (Bordeaux: Delmas, 1969) 38, no. 70, pl. 41. RILM 1969-99.

Notes

Another version of this painting is owned by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (see RIdIM item 1244).

RIdIM record id

2162