Portrait of a Musician (c. 1800): Art, History and Details

Portrait of a Musician (c. 1800) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Andrea Appiani (Italian, 1754–1817).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of a Musician
• Date: c. 1800
• Creator attribution: Andrea Appiani (Italian, 1754–1817)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood
• Dimensions: 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.)
• Collection: P - Italian 18th Century
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 2011.46

Collection credit

Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.

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