A musical conversation

Laroon, Marcellus, the younger (1679-1772)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1760

Height:

68.2 cm  (26 7/8 in.)

Width:

88.9 cm  (35 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

A gathering of many people in a room adorned with paintings in the background. On the left, a group of musicians performs. On the left, in front of a large window, three men play harpsichord, lute, and violin, and a woman appears to sing. A group sits at a table in the middle, and another group stands on the right. Servants appear to work in the background. Violin and violoncello cases rest on the floor in the foreground.

Iconclass

43A(+3)
festivities (+ music and song ~ festive activities)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harpsichord [2251]
Violin [3573]
Lute [3394]
Violoncello [3582] (only the case is pictured)

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. “Men, women, and music at home: the influence of cultural values on musical life in eighteenth-century England”, Imago musicae 2 (1985) 51, 59. RILM 1985-6899.

Leppert, Richard D. The sight of sound: Music, representation, and the history of the body (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1993) 228-229, fig. 100. RILM 1993-3647.

RIdIM record id

4849