Tuesday, March 20, 2012

HARP ILLUSTRATED: ROSE ADELAIDE DECREUX WITH SINGLE ACTION PEDAL


Self Portrait with a Harp, by Rose Adélaïde Ducreux, c. 1791.
In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Single-Action Cousineau or Naderman?

Blog article by Costume Studies student, Katy Werlin
'The Chemise a la Reine' in two parts.

2 comments:

Deborah Henson-Conant said...

Wait ... she PAINTED it AND she's the harpist. WOWWW! Who cares what kinda harp it was (I know we do, we're Herds - Harp Nerds)-- I wanna know who WAS she and what else did she do??? Not that she'd need to do more than that.

. said...

Yes, I agree! And those beautiful little shoes..sigh. OK, I'm a Shnerd (shoe nerd).