Concert with a Self-Portrait of the Artist
Artist
Giovanni Battista Vanni
(Italian, 1599 - 1660)
Datemid-1620s-30s
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 45 7/8 × 57 1/4 × 1 in. (116.5 × 145.4 × 2.5 cm)
Frame: 52 9/16 × 64 5/16 × 3 in. (133.5 × 163.4 × 7.6 cm)
Frame: 52 9/16 × 64 5/16 × 3 in. (133.5 × 163.4 × 7.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of Nanette Gude de Maiditch, 1968
Object numberSN866
This type of chamber concert scene, with three-quarter length seated figures against a dark background, became very popular in Rome in the 1620s and 30s. Vanni, who was trained in Florence, would have been inspired by such works during his stay in Rome
during those same decades. Vanni’s biographer describes this painting (or one of the several variants that survive), and tells us that the figure on the left is the artist’s self-portrait.
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