The old Cremona

Peto, John Frederick (1854-1907)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
after 1887
Height:
40.6 cm  (16 in.)
Width:
30.5 cm  (12 in.)
Inscription: [falsely inscribed and dated at lower right]: WMH [monogram] ARNETT
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    American Paintings and Sculpture[Museum inv. no.: 39.172.1]Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

The work was previously attributed to Harnett because of its similarity with his painting "The old violin" (1886) (Collection William J. Williams, Cincinnati). Another similar work by Peto can be found with RIdIM Item id number 119.

RIdIM record id

3217