Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
Le compositeur Cherubini et la Muse de la poésie lyrique (The composer Cherubini and the Muse of lyric poetry)
1842
Oil on canvas, 105 x 94 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Cherubini seated, elbow resting on a console under a reddish fluted column. He holds his head in his right hand, and a cane in the other. He wears a black frock coat called a carrick, partially open at the top, revealing the end of a red vest and a white shirt. Behind him Terpsichore, muse of dance, dramatic choruses and lyric poetry with her attribute the lyre. She extends her right hand above her head. (Louvre)
Compare:
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
Luigi Cherubini
1841
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
See also:
• Cherubini, Luigi (1760-1842)