Christoph Willibald von Gluck

Duplessis, Joseph-Siffred (1725-1802)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1775

Height:

99.5 cm  (39 3/16 in.)

Width:

80.5 cm  (31 11/16 in.)

With frame: 121.5 x 102.7 x 10 cm

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Paris (France)

Description

Portrait of Christoph Willibald von Gluck playing a clavichord.

People as subjects

Gluck, Christoph Willibald Ritter von (1714-1787) (Composer portrait)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Clavichord [2232]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Jander, Owen Hughes. "The clavichord as metaphor in late eighteenth-century portraiture", in De clavicordio III: Proceedings of the III International Clavichord Symposium : Magnano, 24-28 september 1997 (Magnano, BI, Italia: Musica Antiqua a Magnano, 1997) 143-149. RILM 1998-16915. ISBN 88-900269-0-1; 978-88-900269-0-4.

Notes

On the side of the clavichord the artist signed the work "J.S. Duplessis pinx. parisiis 1775."

RIdIM record id

2386