Portrait de Mlles Moulins

Prouvé, Victor (1858-1943)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1903
Height:
132.0 cm  (52 in.)
Width:
150.0 cm  (59 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Nancy

Additional titles

Portrait des Demoiselles Moulins

Description

Group portrait with three women at a piano: Hélène, Marguerite, and Marthe Moulins. Two women and a younger girl can be seen in the background. Music is on the piano stand.

People as subjects

Moulins, Marie Hélène (1874-1941) (Musician portrait)
Moulins, Marie Marguerite (1875-1974) (Musician portrait)
Moulins, Marie Marthe (born 1877) (Musician portrait)

Iconclass

48C7333(+13)
pianoforte (+ model, sitter)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Grand pianoforte [2284]

Image URLs

image link 1
Part of the museum's digital gallery of paintings by Prouvé.
image link 2
Museum image file

Notes

The three women depicted in the foreground are granddaughters of Michel Prosper Moulins (1815-1889), music director and conductor of the Opéra de Nancy, and cousins of Marie Duhamel, the wife of the artist.

Inscription at the bottom right: "Hélène/Marguerite/Marthe Moulins/V.Prouvé/Nancy 1903."

RIdIM record id

5305