Portrait de Louis Richard de La Bretèche en costume de fantaisie

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1769
Height:
80.0 cm  (31 1/2 in.)
Width:
65.0 cm  (25 9/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

La Musique. Portrait de M. de la Bretèche, frère de l'abbé de Saint-Non.

    Item location

  • Musée du Louvre
    [Museum inv. no.: 1058]

Description

A man playing a guitar is seated facing the back, looking over his left shoulder at the viewer. The back of the guitar neck is visible, as well as an open book of sheet music.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Lallement, Nicole. "Inventaire des tableaux à sujets musicaux du musée du Louvre. II: La peinture française des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 1. tableaux conservés au musée", Musique, images, instruments: Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale 3 (1997) 194, no. 39.

RIdIM record id

2434