Gaetano Pugnani

Unknown

Soldi, Andrea (c. 1703-1771) (formerly attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1754
Height:
120.5 cm  (47 7/16 in.)
Width:
89.0 cm  (35 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
School:
School of Turin

    Item location

  • Royal College of Music, Centre for Performance History
    Purchased in 1977 with the aid of a grant from the National Art Collections Fund.

Description

From the Royal College of Music, Centre for Performance History web site: "This portrait was perhaps executed by one of the court artists in Turin, after Pugnani's return from his trip to Paris in 1754. He is depicted wearing 'the official gala dress of a court musician serving the House of Savoy: light blue coat with wide ermine cuffs, and a white waistcoat edged with blue lace'. The mere existence of such a portrait reveals the esteem in which the sitter was held, but it also makes clear his two-fold talents through the inclusion of his violin (perhaps by Giuseppe Guanieri) and bow, and the printed and manuscript music, quill. This is both a distinguished performer and a composer. The printed music under the violin shows a printed first violin part to Pugnani's Trio Sonata Op. 1 No. 3 (published in Paris in 1754), while the other sheet bears a composition draft for an unidentified work in D major."

People as subjects

Pugnani, Gaetano (1731-1798) (Musician)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573] (Violin rests on a bow.)

Musical works

Pugnani, Gaetano -- Trio Sonata, op. 1, no. 3illegible music notation
A partially visible representation of a printed copy of the first violin part of the work.

Pugnani, Gaetano -- [Unidentified]illegible music notation
A representation of manuscript composition draft of an unidentified work in D major.

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Daniel Heartz. "Portrait of a court musician: Gaetano Pugnani of Turin", Imago musicae 1 (1984) 102-19. RILM 1984-06859.

An Illustrated Catalogue of the Music Loan Exhibition, Fishmonger's Hall (London, 1909) 232.

Ingamells, J. “Andrea Soldi Part I: 1735-1744: Merritt and Idle Vanitys”, The Connoisseur 185 (1974) 192-200.

Ingamells, J. “Andrea Soldi Part II: 1735-1744: Merritt and Idle Vanitys”, The Connoisseur 186 (1974) 178-185.

National Art Collections Fund Annual Report (London, 1978) 25-26.

Seletsky, Robert E. “New Light on the Old Bow – 2”, Early music 32/3 (August 2004) 415-426.

Korn, Madeleine. "Gaetano Pugnani", The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings, http://nicepaintings.org/works/86169

RIdIM record id

494