Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Le concert is set within a rich, but intimate space. It’s an intimate soirée, an evening entertainment with elaborately draped and trimmed curtains pulled shut, and the piano forté illuminated by candlelight. The two gentlemen who are apparently listening to the concert, one seated warming his […]
musical instruments
S.2.18 Le juge intégre
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Bouteux inv. / L J Masquelier Sc.” Artist: Le Bouteux, Joseph Barthélemy Engraver: Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I Year: Inscription: “Ce Dieu lui reprit Euridice / Pour prix de ses divins accords.” Keywords: bident, boats, Cerberus (Greek mythology), Charon (Greek character), demons, Eurydice […]
S.2.12 Le bal
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Bouteux inv. / D. Née Sc.” Artist: “Le Bouteux, Joseph Barthélemy” Engraver: “Née, François Denis” Year: Inscription: “Songés que je dois à la danse / Ce seul instant de jouißance….” Keywords: arches, audiences, balls (parties), bas-reliefs (sculpture), candles, chandeliers (hanging lights), children […]
S.2.07 Le clavecin
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: The young lovers throw their arms back in surprise at being discovered as the young girl’s mother enters the room – their arms form an incomplete circle to emphasise their recent proximity. On the stool in the lower right foreground, a lap dog (symbol of […]
S.2.06 Le racomodement
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Bouteux inv. / Masquelier Sc.” Artist: “Le Bouteux, Joseph Barthélemy” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Ah! dieux quel bonheur! / Dit Colin, jamais tant d’ardeur / Ne m’enflama, ma chere Colinette;” Keywords: aerophones, baskets (containers), cattle, cattle, clouds, couples, courtship, […]
S.2.25 Regrets de David sur la mort de Betsabée
Look: View Image(s): 1773 Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Bouteux inv. / D. Née Sclp.” Artist: Le Bouteux, Joseph Barthélemy Engraver: Née, François Denis Year: Inscription: “L’infortuné Davis aux pieds de saint autel, / Par ces mots, en tremblant, imploroit l’Eternel.” Keywords: altar canopies, altars (religious fixtures), barrel ceilings, basins (vessels), cassolettes, censer […]
