print; satirical print

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1875,0710.6033
Title: Object: Jardin de l'harmonie - prime de l'art musical
Description: A satire showing sixty-six composers; with thirty-eight living composers in the "Garden of Harmony", among them are Offenbach playing the organ at centre, and Verdi riding a bicycle and Wagner sitting by a fountain on the right; above them, among the clouds, are twenty-seven deceased composers, on either side of an allegorical figure. c.1871/75 Lithograph
Producer name: Print made by: Henri Emy (Armand Louis Henri Télory); Printed by: Bertauts; Published by: Léon Escudier
School/style: French
Production date: 1871-1875
Production place: Printed in: Paris (France); Published in: Paris (France)
Materials: paper
Technique: lithograph
Dimensions: Height: 454 millimetres (image area); Width: 663 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Among the deceased composers is Auber, who died in 1871; among the living, Bizet, who died in 1875. The print was made between these dates.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; musician
Associated names: Portrait of: Giuseppe Verdi; Portrait of: Richard Wagner; Portrait of: Camille Saint-Saëns; Portrait of: Georges Bizet; Portrait of: Charles Gounod; Portrait of: Jacques Offenbach; Portrait of: Ludwig van Beethoven; Portrait of: Vincenzo Bellini; Portrait of: Hector Berlioz; Portrait of: Luigi Cherubini; Portrait of: Gaetano Donizetti; Portrait of: Daniel Auber; Portrait of: Adolphe Adam; Portrait of: Joseph Haydn; Portrait of: Christoph Willibald Gluck; Portrait of: Jean Baptiste Lully; Portrait of: Étienne Nicolas Méhul; Portrait of: Giacomo Meyerbeer; Portrait of: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Portrait of: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi; Portrait of: Gioacchino Rossini; Portrait of: Carl Maria von Weber; Portrait of: Henry Litolff; Portrait of: Jules Massenet; Portrait of: Frederico Ricci
Acquisition name: From: Anonymous
Acquisition date: 1875
Acquisition notes: Acquired under the Copyright Act
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1875,0710.6033

Free entry

Opening hours