Joseph-Dominique Fabry Garat Playing a Lyre Guitar
Adèle Romany
(French, 1769–1846)
about 1808
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions51 1/4 x 39 1/2 in. (130.2 x 100.3 cm)
Credit LineCharles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund
Accession number2009.344
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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.
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)
Unidentified artist, Belgian, fourth quarter 18th century
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
William Walker