print
- Museum number
- 1936,0302.16.24
- Title
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Object: La musique
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Series: Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes
- Description
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Plate 119: a group of finely dressed people, including two boys, singing or about to join in, some reading music sheets, some of them placed on a stand; composition with an arched top
Lithograph on buff chine collé
- Production date
- 1850-1855
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres (image)
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Width: 215 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print, from Volume 3, 5ème livraison, is in one of three bound volumes in the Department of Prints and Drawings (1936,0302.14.1-49, 1936,0302.15.1-49 and 1936,0302.16.1-49). For further information on the series, including dating, see Curator’s Comment on 1936,0302.14.1.
For another impression, also from 'Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes', see 1880,0710.124.
According to the list of plates, the figures are in Renaissance costume.
N.B.
Although the IFF dates this print 1855, there is an entry for 1850 in the Bibliographie de la France for a series with a very similar name, most probably referring to 'Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes' referring to the 5ème livraison: '2 novembre 1850, no. 557 Oeuvres des artistes anciens et modernes. 5e livraison. [...]'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Printed Books
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1936,0302.16.24