Sujet

Power of Music, 1852 (?). Creator: Louis Gallait.

Légende

Power of Music, 1852 (?). A letter written by the artist to William Walters dated July 20, 1860 illuminates the subject of this painting. It shows a brother and sister resting before an old tomb. The brother is attempting to comfort his sibling by playing the violin, and she has fallen into a deep sleep, "oblivious of all grief, mental and physical."

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B22_027

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53,2Mo (1,2Mo) / 31,8cm x 42,0cm / 3750 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather Europe portrait women woman people man men family music sitting wind arts painting mountain mountains country musician art guy rest resting continent museum geography Belgium European color death tired windy Neo-classical tomb Belgian mausoleum brother sister location century musical instrument musical instruments burial reassuring loss violin violinist reassurance sibling concept grief weary seated two people comforting stringed instrument mountain top grieving oil Painting Colour fiddle 19th century fiddler Neoclassical Neoclassicism nineteenth century Neo-Classicism 1850s artistic movement geographical feature condolence portrait oil young women young man young men young woman Oil on wood Louis Gallait Gallait Louis Louis-Joseph Gallait violin player Walters Art Museum Heritage Art 19th-century oil on wood (mahogany) panel