Joseph-Dominique Fabry Garat playing a lyre guitar

Romany, Adèle (1769-1846)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1808

Height:

130.2 cm  (51 1/4 in.)

Width:

100.3 cm  (39 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Adèle Romany was known primarily for her portraits of musicians, artists, and theatrical performers from fashionable circles in early 19th-century Paris. Here she portrays the composer, teacher and singer Joseph Dominique Fabry Garat playing a lyre guitar. Fabry Garat composed a number of simple pieces for voice and instrument known as romances.

People as subjects

Garat, Joseph-Dominique Fabry (1774-1833) (Musician portrait)

Iconclass

48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)
48C723
portrait of a musician

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre guitar [3247]

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5908