[A music lesson] [art original]

Description

Title: [A music lesson] [art original]
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
Contributor: Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721, associated name.
Published / Created: [1736]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A drawing by Horace Walpole, after Antoine Watteau's painting "Pour nous prouver que cette belle"; a woman sits in a chair perusing the open sheet music in her hands as two young children look on. One man leans on the back of her chair, looking over her shoulder at the sheet music, as another man sits before her tuning his lute. 1774 Description: A man and woman in water-colours, after Watteau; by Mr. Walpole. Formerly hung in Mr. Walpole's Bedchamber
Description: Title assigned by cataloger.
Signed and dated in the image, on the side of the chair: Hor. Walpole 1736.
Inscription, on the back of the frame, in Horace Walpole's hand: by Horace Walpole.
Place of creation based on the known residence of the artist in 1736.
Provenance: Drawn in 1736 by Horace Walpole; 1920, May 14, Christie's, Earl Waldegrave Sale, lot 101; 1931 July 3, Parsons, lot 69 bt. W.S. Lewis, £31.10 with another Walpole watercolour also after Watteau; The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Extent: 1 drawing : visible image 174 x 220 mm, in frame 26 x 31 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: SH Contents W218 no. 3 Boxed separately, shelved at end of class

Genre: Drawing
Watercolors English 18th century
Material: gouache and watercolor with white highlights on paper, in original black and gilt frame ;
Subject (Topic): Children
Musicians
Lutes
Women
Subjects: Children
Musicians
Lutes
Women
English > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Horace Walpole, A Music Lesson. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.