File:Adele Romany - Portrait of a Lady at a Pianoforte.jpg

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Adèle Romany, Portrait of a Lady at a Pianoforte, circa 1808, Museum of Fine-Arts, Boston

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Adèle Romany: Portrait of a Lady at a Pianoforte  wikidata:Q99621245 reasonator:Q99621245
Artist
Adèle Romany  (1769–1846)  wikidata:Q18560543
 
Adèle Romany
Alternative names
Marie Jeanne Romany; Jeanne Marie Mercier; Madame Romanée; Adele Romany; Marie Jeanne Romance; Romanée; Adele de Romance; Adèle-Romance Romany; Marie-Jeanne Mercier Romany; Adèle de Romance
Description French painter and salonnière
Date of birth/death 7 December 1769 Edit this at Wikidata 7 June 1846 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q18560543
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Title
Portrait of a lady standing next to a piano forte holding a manuscript Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of a lady standing next to a piano forte holding a manuscript Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a lady standing next to a piano forte holding a manuscript Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait d'une dame au piano-forte"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een dame staand bij een piano forte met een manuscript in haar hand"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Français : Adèle Romany, Portrait d'une dame au piano-forte, vers 1808, musée des beaux-arts de Boston
English: Adèle Romany, Portrait of a Lady at a Pianoforte, circa 1808, Museum of Fine-Arts, Boston.

This portrait of a young woman at a pianoforte is the pendant of Joseph Dominique Fabry-Garat's portrait by Adèle Romany. This portrait depicts a female student or companion of Fabry-Garat.

The young lady stands before a pianoforte, idly fingering its keys; a music book sits on the instrument and she holds a musical manuscript at her side on which can clearly be read: 'RECUEIL/DE/ROMANCES/PAR/GARAT JEUNE'. Beneath this inscription, less legibly, is a dedication to 'son ami ZUASNAVAR' and a further identification of the musical score as by 'Auteur Fabry Garat'. The identity of the friend and dedicatee Zuasnavar has not been determined, but one may presume that the sitter is Fabry-Garat's wife, companion or a fellow singer who regularly performed his songs.

The inscription on the pianoforte reveals it was manufactured by Sébastien Érard, one of the preeminent piano makers of the 19th century. The present inscription corresponds to those on similar Érard pianos made in the early 1790s: 'Sébastién Érard et Fréré Compag. Priviligiée du Roi. Rue du Mail No. 37 à Paris', so it is possible that the instrument depicted here was made around that date. Although Érard worked in both London and Paris, the inscription on this pianoforte indicates it was made in the latter city at the firm Érard Frères & Co., which Sébastien owned with his brother Jean-Baptiste. A similar pianoforte can be seen in Romany's Portrait of the Artist's Family in front of the Château de Juilly of 1804 at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.
Date circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 129.5 cm (50.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 94 cm (37 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+129.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+94U174728
institution QS:P195,Q49133
Accession number
2014.1010 (Museum of Fine Arts Boston) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history

Provenance:

  • 1950s, sold by the Maison Jansen, Paris, to a member of the Scarpa family, São Paulo, Brazil and Florida;
  • June 5, 2013, consigned anonymously by the Scarpa family (“property from a private Florida collection”) for sale, Christie’s, New York, lot 104, bought in;
  • June 4, 2014, sale (“collection of the Scarpa family”), Christie’s, New York, lot 81, sold to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 25, 2014)
Inscriptions
  • Signed Adl Romany (lower left)
  • Inscribed RECUEIL DE ROMANCES PAR GARAT JEUNE Son Ami ZUASNAVAR Enregistré à la Biblioth... Auteur Fabry Garat (on the manuscript); and inscribed Erard et Fr Privilégiée du Roi à Paris (on the pianoforte)
References
Source/Photographer Christie's
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