Portrait of a family

Nollekens, Joseph Frans (1706-1748)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1740

Height:

127.0 cm  (50 in.)

Width:

101.6 cm  (40 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Painting presents five figures, presumably representing two parents, two daughters and one son; one of the young women is playing a keyboard instrument (perhaps a harpsichord); the lavish background scene is outdoors, with stone staircases, columns, an urn with sculptured relief, a fountain, an arcade, and tall trees and clouds. A man playing an aulos is part of the sculptured relief on the urn at the lower left corner of the painting.

Iconclass

42B74
family group, especially parents with their children
48CC7523
one person playing keyboard instrument - CC - out of doors
42E34
urn

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harpsichord [2251]
Aulos [4173]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Chen, Ching-Jung. The early Georgian conversation piece (Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 2001) 513, 516, 521, 531-533, cat. no. 122.

Notes

Additional bibliographic references may be found on the museum website.

RIdIM record id

6235