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Joseph-Dominique Fabry Garat Playing a Lyre Guitar
Adèle Romany (French, 1769–1846)
French
about 1808
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51 1/4 x 39 1/2 in. (130.2 x 100.3 cm)
Credit Line
Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund
Accession Number2009.344
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Adèle Romany was known primarily for her portraits of musicians, artists, and theatrical performers from fashionable circles in early 19th-century Paris. Here she portrays the composer, teacher and singer Joseph Dominique Fabry Garat playing a lyre guitar. Fabry Garat composed a number of simple pieces for voice and instrument known as romances.
DescriptionCarved and gilded French Directoire frame
Signed
Signed twice: lower Left corner, and on edge of the desk
ProvenanceDecember 13, 1998, anonymous sale, De Muizon-Le Coent, Senlis, France, lot 66, bought in. June 19, 2007, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Paris, lot 82, sold to Jean-François Heim, Paris; sold by Heim to James Harvey British Art, London; 2009, sold by James Harvey to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 25, 2009)