The Harp Lesson by Théodore-Joseph Geirnaert has quite a lot in common with a conversation piece or conversation picture. These terms are used for group portraits, which also depict a genre painting. A conversation picture does not recount an anecdote, but illustrates the relations between the characters and their surroundings in an informal atmosphere. The onlooker is invited as it were to attend the harp lesson with the other family members and at the same time to admire the cultivated lifestyle as well as the modern Empire-style interior. This painting dates from the painter’s neo-Classicist period. He later concentrated on painting more popular scenes.
| Artist |
Joseph Geirnaert
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| Title | The Harp Lesson |
| Date | ca. 1820 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1820-A |
| Acquisition credit |
contest
Geirnaert, Joseph Ghent 1820 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1820-A |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7865/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300015637
portraits
AAT
300139140 genre pictures AAT 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A231
standing figure
Iconclass
31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31B6213 looking sideways Iconclass 31D11221 boy (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass 31D120 Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 34B11 dog Iconclass 41A2 interior of the house Iconclass 41A3221 closed door Iconclass 41A3321 closed window Iconclass 41A421 curtains Iconclass 41A431 rugs (textiles) Iconclass 42B parents with their children Iconclass 42B74 family group, especially parents with their child(ren) Iconclass 42G family, relationship, descent Iconclass 42G211 parents (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2111 father (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2112 mother (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G212 children (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2121 son (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2122 daughter (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 48C7211 musician training pupils, music-lesson Iconclass 48C7322 harp Iconclass 48C75 making music; musician with instrument Iconclass 48C78 listening to music Iconclass 61B113 anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass 61BB2 historical persons - BB - woman Iconclass |
| School / Style | Romantic (modern European styles) AAT |
| Catalogue descriptif du Musée de la ville de Gand : précédé d'une notice historique / Adolphe Pierre Sunaert. - Gand : E. Vanderhaeghen, 1870 (p. 149, nr. 208) |
| Jos Geirnaert (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 71) |
| Werken van overleden Eeklose schilders (tentoonstelling Eeklo, Stadhuis, 8 - 26.2.1970) / Elisabeth Dhanens. - Eeklo : Stadhuis (Eeklo), 1970 (cat. 2 (ill.)) |
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