"Portrait Of Jean-philippe Rameau (1683-1764). Circa 1800"
Large portrait of Jean-Philippe RAMEAU, French composer born in Dijon in 1683. His father Jean Rameau was an organist at the Saint-Etienne church in Dijon and taught his son notes before he could read. At eighteen he left for the Grand Tour in Italy and returned fairly quickly to France and Paris where he was organist for the Jesuits in several churches. A few years later he became a music theorist, made famous by his treatises on harmony. Our portrait shows the artist in three-quarter length dressed in a blue velvet frock coat sitting in front of his harpsichord, a score of Orpheus placed on his easel. 
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