Miniature Portrait Of A Young Aristocrat With A Harp, Directoire Period

Large miniature representing a young woman playing the harp
French School of the Directoire period
Miniature painted on ivory
The miniature is surrounded by a net of gilded brass, in a frame of blackened wood
D: 9.5 cm
Practice the harp as well as well as other musical instruments were part of the leisure activities of young aristocrats in the 18th and 19th centuries. The young woman represented on this miniature plays on a very beautiful herpe from the Louis XVI period. She is dressed in a white muslin dress, but the waist of the dress is still classic, and not high, as it will be fashionable in a few years during the Empire period. She is represented in a wooded landscape, reminiscent of the garden of a castle or a private mansion.