Portrait d'une jeune fille tenant un quinton

Vallayer-Coster, Anne (1744-1818)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1773

Height:

116.0 cm  (45 11/16 in.)

Width:

96.0 cm  (37 13/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

A young woman is seated holding a quinton with five strings and a book of music on her lap. The instrument has often been misidentified as a violin.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Quinton [3588]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Herzog, Myrna. "Is the quinton a viol? A puzzle unravelled", Early music 28/1 (2000) cover, 1, 8-31. RILM 2000-00210.

RIdIM record id

4550