Lot Essay
The music score to the right of the picture is an arrangement for the harpsichord or piano and violin of the Overture to Nicolas-Marie Dalayriac's opera the Deux Savoyards first performed in 1789.
A Still Life with a Violin: A Violin and Bow, a Musical Score, a Book, a Bottle of Wine and a Goblet on a Table draped with a green Cloth
Details
French School, circa 1800
A Still Life with a Violin: A Violin and Bow, a Musical Score, a Book, a Bottle of Wine and a Goblet on a Table draped with a green Cloth
signed (?) with initials 'OP px'
oil on canvas
24 5/8 x 27¾in. (62.6 x 70.5cm.)
A Still Life with a Violin: A Violin and Bow, a Musical Score, a Book, a Bottle of Wine and a Goblet on a Table draped with a green Cloth
signed (?) with initials 'OP px'
oil on canvas
24 5/8 x 27¾in. (62.6 x 70.5cm.)
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, Feb. 13, 1985, lot 108 as Follower of Louis Leopold Boilly.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, Oct. 24, 1988, lot 24 as French School, circa 1790.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, Oct. 24, 1988, lot 24 as French School, circa 1790.