Léon Pallière (1787–1820) in his room at the Villa Medici, Rome

Alaux, Jean (1786-1864)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1817
Height:
58.1 cm  (22 7/8 in.)
Width:
45.4 cm  (17 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Roma

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 2019.141.1]

Description

The subject is pictured playing a six-string guitar while sitting on a bed. From the museum website: Pallière and Alaux received the Prix de Rome for history painting in 1812 and 1815, respectively. As a young pensionnaire (resident) at the Villa Medici, seat of the French Academy in Rome, Alaux painted a group of portraits of fellow laureates in their private rooms. Both the intimacy of the scene and its subject—an artist in his studio—capture the emerging Romantic sensibility.

People as subjects

Pallière, Louis-Vincent-Léon (1787-1820)

Iconclass

48C513
portrait, self-portrait of painter

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237] (six strings)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

A very similar work from the same place and year is RIdIM item 2066.

RIdIM record id

6082