Still Life with Musical Instruments
Artist
Bartolomeo Bettera
(Italian, 1639 - after 1688)
Dateca. 1660s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions45 1/4 × 57 × 2 in. (114.9 × 144.8 × 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of A. Everett Austin, Jr., 1951
Object numberSN658
Bettera specialized in large still life paintings with complex arrangements of musical instruments amidst books, musical scores, rich textiles, and other luxurious collectors’ items. Hallmarks of the artist include velvet curtains edged with gold fringe, Turkish carpets used as tablecloths, and traces of dust on the objects depicted. To create texture, Bettera often pasted pieces of rough fabric to his canvases and then painted on top of them, as is evident in the carpets shown here.
On View
On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 13, Wall West
