Still life with violin and recorder

Oudry, Jean-Baptiste (1686-1755)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1725
Height:
60.5 cm  (23 13/16 in.)
Width:
77.0 cm  (30 5/16 in.)
Signed low right: J B. Oudry
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Beauvais (France)

    Item location

  • Sotheby's Auction HouseRemained unsold at the New York sale "Important Old Masters Paintings" 30.01.1998, lot. 94

Description

Still life with violin and recorder and an opened book with music displayed on a table along with fruits and books.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Recorder [4039]

Musical works

legible music notation
In the 1998 Sotheby's sale catalogue (p. 174) is reported "The music in the present painting has not been identified but is, most likely, beginning practice notation".

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Locquin, Jean. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Jean Baptiste Oudry, peintre du roi (1686-1755) (Paris: J. Schemit, 1912) cat. no. 56.

Encil, George. Experience and adventures of a collector (Paris: ACR Edition, 1989) 182-181. ISBN 2867700418.

Opperman, Hal. Jean-Baptiste Oudry (New York: Garland, 1977) vol. 1, 562, cat. no. P.532 and vol. 2, 947, ill. 130.

Faré, Michel. La nature morte en France: son histoire et son évolution du XVIIe au XXe siècle (Genève: Cailler, 1963) vol. 2, ill. 335.

Important old master paintings, sale 7095, 30.01.1998, lot. 94 (New York: Sotheby's, 1998) 174-175.

RIdIM record id

2956