A family group in an interior

Taylor, Stephen (active 1817-1849)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1831
Height:
52.0 cm  (20 1/2 in.)
Width:
63.5 cm  (25 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Private collection"Sold London, Christie, 22 November 1974, lot 171". -Leppert article, p. 52.

Description

A family is shown recreating in a room. On the left, a young woman is seen playing the pianoforte, with a music book open on the music rack. Behind the pianoforte stand two men, the one on the left is holding what appears to be a cricket bat, the man on the right is holding a transverse flute. At the table in the middle are seated three women, one with a very small child seated on the table. Another child stands in front of the table, and two more children stand to the right of the table in front of a fireplace.

Iconclass

43A2
private festivities, merry company

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pianoforte [2299]
Transverse flute [4093]

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. "Men, women, and music at home: the influence of cultural values on musical life in eighteenth-century England". Imago musicae 2 (1985) 51-133, fig. 28. RILM 1985-6899.

RIdIM record id

7415