Portrait of a young woman

Brown, Mather (1761-1831)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1801
Height:
127.0 cm  (50 in.)
Width:
102.2 cm  (40 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    American paintings and sculpture[Museum inv. no.: 65.235]

Description

A young woman seated beside a square piano, holding music (not legible), under the chair another music score lying (folded, not legible); the piano bearing the label "1797 / Kirkman Fecit / London."; on the piano's stand is music (hardly legible: "pi[a] / ... / [Velti] Subita); the keyboard is incorrectly rendered.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Square pianoforte [2308]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Notes

The depiction of the square piano is of interest insofar as the prestigious London harpsichord firm of Josephus Kirkman and Sons began to manufacture square pianos in 1775, but no example of them appears to have survived.

RIdIM record id

3478