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Title
Rehearsal of an opera
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Date
ca. 1709
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Materials & Techniques
Oil on canvas
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Dimensions
18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm), Frame: 24 3/4 × 29 1/4 inches (62.9 × 74.3 cm)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Accession Number
B1981.25.524
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Classification
Paintings
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Collection
Paintings and Sculpture
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Link to Frame
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Subject Terms
animal | art | bonnets (hats) | cello | chitarrone | dog (animal) | double bass | dresses | fan (costume accessory) | genre subject | harpsichord | instrumentalists | Italian | landscape | men | music | musical instruments | opera (discipline) | painting (visual work) | paintings | performance | performers | piano | singers | singing | soprano | violin | wigs | women
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Associated Places
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Associated People
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Access
On view
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Link
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Hogarth and Europe (Tate Britain, 2021-11-01 - 2022-03-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Canaletto, Tiepolo and the eighteenth-century Venetian art (Palazzo Ducale, 2019-02-23 - 2019-06-09) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Canaletto, Tiepolo and the eighteenth-century Venetian art (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2018-09-24 - 2019-01-21) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Tate Britain, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Consul Smith Collection - Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (Kimbell Art Museum, 1989-11-11 - 1990-01-21) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Canaletto & Venezia, Museum Musei, Milano, p. 64, cat. 11.06, NJ18.C17 A12 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ching-Jung Chen, The early Georgian conversation piece : Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, 2001, pp. 79, 130, 593-99, cat. no. 145, Available online : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 186-187, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Patricia Crown, British comic art, 1730-1830, from the Yale Center for British Art, Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, 1988, pp. 5, 6, 28, NC1477 G63 C76 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catherine Loisel, Eblouissante Venise: Venise, les Arts et l'Europe au XVIIIe Siècle, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, p. 130-131, cat. 86, N6921.V5 E25 2018 (LC) Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Among the whores and thieves : William Hogarth and The beggar's opera, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1997, pp. 44, 46, 103, no. 26, NJ18 H67 A15 B4 1997 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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