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Attributes of Music
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About this work
A lute and flute rest on top of sheet music. This painting was intended to hang above a door, opposite still lifes that represented the other fine arts of painting and sculpture (the two related paintings are in the Musée du Louvre, Paris). Bonvin was part of the 19th-century movement known as Realism. Led by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), the Realist painters were interested in depicting the world that surrounded them, as well as the popular culture of their time.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineAttributes of Music, 1863. François Bonvin (French, 1817–1887). Oil on fabric; unframed: 62.6 x 116 cm (24 5/8 x 45 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin, 1980.233
