Portrait of Monsieur Aublet

Voiriot, Guillaume (1713-1799)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1782
Height:
128.9 cm  (50 3/4 in.)
Width:
97.2 cm  (38 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 2007.442]

Description

A seated man in fancy dress is holding a 5-course Baroque guitar. Details about the sitter remain unknown, though Voiriot portrayed a relatively large number of musicians and actors.

People as subjects

Aublet, M. (Musician portrait)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237] (Five courses, French style)

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 2

RIdIM record id

3769