Alphonse Promayet

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1851

Height:

107.0 cm  (42 1/8 in.)

Width:

70.2 cm  (27 5/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Portrait of Alphonse Promayet (1822-1872), a childhood friend of Courbet's who became a violinist.

People as subjects

Promayet, Alphonse (1822-1872) (Musician portrait)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Courbet and Promayet attended school together; Promayet was first in drawing; he went to Russia, where he became a private teacher for a branch of the Romanoff family, tutoring and supervising the education of a young son of the family both in Russia and afterwards in Paris. Courbet made two or three other portraits of Promayet, a drawing (signed and dated, 1847), a bust-length portrait (without signature and date), and a second bust-length.

RIdIM record id

3740