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Portrait of a Musician

c. 1800

Andrea Appiani

(Italian, 1754–1817)
Culture
Italy, 18th century
Medium
oil on wood
Measurements
Framed: 72 x 57 x 6.5 cm (28 3/8 x 22 7/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 43.8 x 60.3 cm (17 1/4 x 23 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr. 2011.46
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This unsigned panel depicts an unidentified musician, seen at half-length. He holds a score, which is legible, but not yet identified. The man wears a black coat; plain, high-collared white shirt, and a white cravat, a style broadly fashionably among European elite and bourgeois men in the years around 1800.
A vertically oriented oil painting depicts a man with light skin tone and dark, curly hair, turned slightly to our right while looking at us. He wears a high-collared black coat over a white cravat. His right hand holds a sheet of paper with musical notation. His face is sharply defined against the solid, muted brown background, with light from our upper left illuminating his features.

Portrait of a Musician

c. 1800

Andrea Appiani

(Italian, 1754–1817)
Italy, 18th century

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