A musician

Moore, Albert Joseph (1841–1893)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1867

Height:

28.6 cm  (11 1/4 in.)

Width:

38.7 cm  (15 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

In neo-classical style, this painting presents three figures in flowing attire sitting in front of a carved stone wall; one plays a lyre while the other two listen.

Iconclass

48C723
portrait of a musician
48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)
48C78
listening to music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501] (eight strings)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Barringer, Timothy J. Art & music in Britain: Four encounters, 1730-1900 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2006) 5, 30-31.



Calloway, Stephen. The cult of beauty: The aesthetic movement 1860-1900 (London: V&A Publishing, 2011) 71-72, 282, pl. 46.



Macleod, Dianne Sachko. Art and the Victorian middle class: Money and the making of cultural identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 440.



Robinson, Duncan. "Acquisitions: The first decade 1977 - 1986", Burlington Magazine 128 (October 1986) 16, no. 40.



Staley, Allen. The new painting of the 1860s, between the pre-raphaelites and the aesthetic movement (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011) 110-111, 130-131, 132, 133, 135, 138, 144, 173, 174, 329, 382, pl. 118.

RIdIM record id

6233