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Small oil on panel depicting a small group of figures: two musicians playing for an elegant young woman and her attendant, entitled "The Concert", painted by Robert Tournières*, in a gilded wooden frame, from the first half of the 18th century.
This painting is in good condition. Annotated on the back "Le Concert Peint par Tournière Cabinet de M. de Villers" (erased). The frame is mounted with keys.
Please note: some wear and cracks from time, wear from time on the frame, see photos.
is a French painter. A pupil of Lucas Delahaye, then of Bon Boullogne and Hyacinthe Rigaud, Tournières was twice admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting, in 1702, as a portrait painter with portraits of the painters Pierre Mosnier and Michel Corneille, and on October 24, 1716, as a history painter. With a real talent as a physiognomist and painter, Tournières enjoyed a very great reputation during his lifetime. Highly sought after in his time, he was the portrait painter of the Regent, chancellors, many political figures and left more than two hundred portraits, most of which are preserved in private collections. His numerous portraits represent people from various classes: ministers, magistrates, ladies of the court, artists, merchants. The heterogeneous nature of his work is typical of an artist from the transitional period of the Regency: the lightness of his palette prefigures the Rococo style, while the Dutch elements give his work a new and more intimate character. He exhibited at the Painting Salons of 1704, 1737, 1741 to 1743 and 1745 to 1748.
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