A Lute Concert | Narodna galerija

In this painting, which is a companion piece to the preceding one, the event is also set in a classical architecture – something approaching Louis XVI, although the costumes are oriental. As was the case for the previous picture, this one also exists in another variant (64 x 98 cm), which was in the Galerie Pardo in Paris in 1983 and which has a different architectural background and also shows differences in various other elements, e.g. in the big chandelier. It is likely that this composition too owes much to some French model which we have not as yet identified.

Artist Johann Josef Karl Henrici

Technique oil, canvas

Dimensions 68 x 96 cm

Inventory number ZD S 1997068, Music Academy, Ljubljana

Restored: 1960, ZSV, Ljubljana.
Provenance: Attems collection, castle in Slovenska Bistrica; confiscated 1945 and entered in the FCC confiscations register on p. 205, No. 6352 (859) as “A Social Gathering, oil on canvas, 97 x 69 cm, 18C, Attems”; lent from the FCC (?) to the Music Academy.
Exhibitions: 1960, Ljubljana, No. 95; 1983, Ljubljana, No. 83.
Lit.: Cevc 1960, p. 37, Cat. No. 95, Fig. 48; Zeri [& Rozman] 1983, p. 154, Cat. No. 83, Fig. 82.
(Painting is for the time being no longer exhibited.)