Self-portrait with a harp

Ducreux, Rose Adélaïde (1761-1802)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1791
Height:
192.7 cm  (75 7/8 in.)
Width:
128.9 cm  (50 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
School:
French school

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 67.55.1]Gallery 528

Description

Rose-Adelaide Ducreux was both a talented artist and musician. This portrait depicts her probably tuning her harp, as she holds a tuning fork in the right hand. Her music on the table before her is a song by the harpist and composer Jean Joseph Benoit Pollet (1753-1823).

People as subjects

Ducreux, Rose Adélaïde (1761-1802) (Musician portrait)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]

Musical works

Pollet, Benoît (Jean-Joseph-Benoît)legible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Kahng, Eik and Marianne Roland Michel. Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the court of Marie-Antoinette (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2002) 74, 85, fig. 13.

RIdIM record id

4546