L'Alliance de la Poésie et de la Musique (The Alliance of Poetry and Music) / Charles Joseph Natoire
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- Accession Number
- 1994/1.81
- Title
- L'Alliance de la Poésie et de la Musique (The Alliance of Poetry and Music)
- Artist
- Charles Joseph Natoire
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1700-1777
- Medium and Support
- oil on panel
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1746
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Île-de-France (region)
- Ville de Paris, Département de (department)
- Paris (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Île-de-France (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Ville de Paris, Département de (department)
- Creation Place 5
- Paris (inhabited place)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Rococo
- Inscription
- Signed at right, C. NATOIRE 174[-]
- Period
- Europe, Rococo (1700-1775)
- Dimensions
- 30.6 cm x 38.2 cm (12 1/16 in. x 15 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- figure painting
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- panel painting
- Physical Description
- Two women clad in flowing robes sit beneath a curved colonnade at the center of this delicately painted scene. The woman on the left, wearing a blue mantle, holds a lyre in her right hand and leans toward her companion, who holds open a musical score on her lap to which she points with her right hand. Books are piled on the steps next to the woman on the left and a putto sits next to her with a scroll unrolled across his lap. A second putto stands next to the other seated woman and plays a viol. A winged putto hovers over the heads of the two women, holding a small trumpet in his left hand and a laurel crown in his right, which he is about to place on the head of the woman with the lyre. Two bust-length portraits of men in oval frames wreathed with laurel hang from the columns in the background.
- Subject Matter
- Two women clad in flowing robes sit beneath a curved colonnade at the center of this delicately painted scene. The woman on the left, wearing a blue mantle, holds a lyre in her right hand and leans toward her companion, who holds open a musical score on her lap to which she points with her right hand. Books are piled on the steps next to the woman on the left and a putto sits next to her with a scroll unrolled across his lap. A second putto stands next to the other seated woman and plays a viol. A winged putto hovers over the heads of the two women, holding a small trumpet in his left hand and a laurel crown in his right, which he is about to place on the head of the woman with the lyre. Two bust-length portraits of men in oval frames wreathed with laurel hang from the columns in the background.
- Secondary Keywords
- bowed
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- arts
- arts and related disciplines
- associated concepts
- chordophones
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- design elements
- disciplines
- fiddles
- figure- and animal-derived motifs
- genres in the arts
- humanities
- literary, oral and motion picture genres
- lutelike chordophones
- motifs
- objects we use
- paintings
- paintings by material or technique
- people and culture
- performing arts
- sound devices
- sound devices by acoustical characteristics
- symbolism
- violin family instruments
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2998 x 2419
- File Size
- 303 KB
- Record
- 1994/1.81
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"L'Alliance de la Poésie et de la Musique (The Alliance of Poetry and Music); ; Charles Joseph Natoire." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1994-sl-1.81/1994_1.81.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
