THE MUSICAL SCENE
Five Centuries of Prints and Drawings of Musical Subjects
Five Centuries of Prints and Drawings of Musical Subjects
- Anon. German, Three Soldiers
- Morellon de la Cave, Vivaldi
- Bloemaert, Majus (May)
- Leonart, Johann Welter
- after Lely, Madame Mary Davis
- att. to Hogarth, Senesino...
- Faber, Mrs. Robinson
- Küsel, Ville de Paride
- Goeneutte, The Duet
- Crehen, Franz Liszt
- Rowlandson , The Welsh Bard
- Hollar, Seven Hunting Horns
- Dequevauviller, L’Assemblée
- Kostomolotsky, Shostakovich
- Solis, Triumph of Flora (Spring)
- Faithorne, Thomas Mace
- Panneels, Saint Cecilia
- Dagoty, Jean-Philippe Rameau
- van de Passe, Orpheus
- Lievens, Jacques Gaultier
- Della Bella, Selva di Diana
- Amman, Three Players
- Silvestre, Troisième Journée
- Anon. French, Nicolò Paganini
- Aroun-al-Rascid, Charpentier
- Polanzani, Masked Ball
- Hegi, Beethoven
- Anonymous, Koussevitzsky
- Kolb, Celebration Plate
- Ravenet, L’Orchestre
- de Wael, Auditus
- Dassonville, Le Concert
- Fantin-Latour, Finale
- Renouard, Dans les Coulisses
- da Trento, Saint Cecilia
- Muller, Jan Pietersz Sweelinck
- Brun, Euterpe Playing
- Sadeler, Jubal
- after Vernet, Gottschalk
- Bickham, Invitation to Mira
- Hohlenberg, Emil Telmányi
- Rops, Le Père Muck
- Bompiani, A Nun Turning
- Legrand, Teutonophonie
- Keene, The Cellist
- Crampton, The Flutist
- Bouchot, Exécution Brillante
- Kilian, The Dancing Lesson
- de Jode, Henri Liberti
- Chauveau, Timbalier et Trompette
- PRINTS AND DRAWINGS OF MUSICAL INTEREST
The Cellist
Etching, 131 x 83 mm. Brilliant impression on laid paper with good margins and with a stamped signature. Keene enjoyed great fame as a humorous illustrator (for Punch magazine, principally), but on the side, he was a masterly, if hardly prolific, etcher. He was admired and befriended by Whistler, who declared, with typical overstatement, that Keene was the greatest English artist since Hogarth. Keene’s etchings were generally small and most of them were published only after his death, frequently bearing a stamped signature, as here. He, in his modest way, had wanted them destroyed.