A pale-skinned man sits facing our left as he plays a harp while turning his face to smile at us in this vertical portrait painting. He looks out the corners of his light blue eyes under arched, gray brows. He has a rounded nose, pale pink lips, and a round face. Gray hair is brushed back from his high forehead and curls around his ears. His long fingers rest on the strings of the harp, and the ends of strings curl like wind-loosened strands of hair along the top edge. The man wears a pale mauve-purple cravat, and his snow-white, long-sleeved chemise is untucked and loose around his thighs.…
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Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725 - 1805)

probably 1759

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 117 x 88.5 cm (46 1/16 x 34 13/16 in.) ; framed: 161.9 x 121.9 cm (63 3/4 x 48 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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