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- Title:
Rehearsal of an opera
- Date:
- ca. 1709
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm), Frame: 24 3/4 × 29 1/4 inches (62.9 × 74.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.524
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.524FR
- Subject Terms:
- animal | art | bonnets (hats) | cello | chitarrone | dog (animal) | double bass | dresses | fan (costume accessory) | genre subject | harpsichord | instrumentalists | Italian | landscape | men | music | musical instruments | opera (discipline) | painting (visual work) | paintings | performance | performers | piano | singers | singing | soprano | violin | wigs | women
- Associated Places:
- England | Greater London | London | United Kingdom
- Associated People:
- Tofts, Catherine (d. 1756), singer
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1008
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