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- Title:
Musical Conversation
- Former Title(s):
A Musical Conversation [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
A Musical Conversation (II) [1967, Raines, Marcellus Laroon, catalogue raisonné]
- Date:
- ca. 1760
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 26 x 30 7/8 inches (66 x 78.4 cm), Frame: 32 3/4 x 37 1/2 x 3 inches (83.2 x 95.3 x 7.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1973.1.35
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1973.1.35FR
- Subject Terms:
- audience | bust | cello | conversation piece | costume | genre subject | group portrait | harpsichord | harpsichordist | interior | leisure | lute | lutenist | music | musical instruments | paintings | party | people | sculpture | singers | violin | violinist | violoncello
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:134
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The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, p. 254, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : Old pictures the property of the late the Rt. Hon. Lord Acton . . . also old pictures and drawings from various sources : 26 April 1929, Christie's, April 26, 1929, p. 6, lot 23, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 142-143, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ralph Edwards, Georgian Conversation Pictures, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, p. 254, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA) Another copy of this article may be found in a separately bound and catalogued copy of this issue located on the Mellon Shelf [call number : N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)] [YCBA]
James Miller, The Music party, paintings, drawings & prints by Marcellus Laroon, 1679-1772, with related works by Marcellus Laroon the Elder, c. 1650-1702 : catalogue of the exhibition at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 11th June - 1st September 2011 and at The Handel House Museum .. , London, 2011, p. 24, no. 12, V 1777 (YCBA) [YCBA]
J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 44, 94, no. 63, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sacheverell Sitwell, Conversation pieces, a survey of English domestic portraits and their painters , B.T. Batsford, London, 1936, pp. 72, 103, pl. 76, fig. 76, ND1314 S5 1936 (YCBA) [YCBA]