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Drawing

1813 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Full-length portrait of Édouard Mouron de Réty, facing slightly right, seated in a music room and holding a violin in his lap.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Drawing in pencil
Brief description
Full-length portrait of the Bourbon supporter Édouard Mouron de Réty. Pencil drawing by Louis Lafitte, 1813.
Physical description
Full-length portrait of Édouard Mouron de Réty, facing slightly right, seated in a music room and holding a violin in his lap.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.9cm
  • Width: 19.7cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Lafitte delineavit MDCCCXIII. Inscribed by the artist on a page of music on the stand' (Signed and dated)
  • 'Une Valse Dédiée a ma mere par Edouard Mouron' (Inscribed by the artist on a page of music on the stand)
Credit line
Given by Miss Aileen M. Armstrong
Object history
This portrait and the companion piece, E.887-1963, were bequeathed by the last surviving member of the family of Mouron de Réty to the donor's grandmother.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.886-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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