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Trompe l'oeil (Music)

Martin Battersby (1914 - Lewes 1982)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

1950 - 1960

Materials

Oil on canvas laid down on panel

Measurements

1990 x 930 mm

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Collection

Mompesson House, Wiltshire

NT 724104.1

Caption

This painting depicts the theme of music, with a classical portrait medallion, a guitar, a recorder, a mask, miniature violin, sheet music and frontispiece to the Kreutzer Sonata, with the inscription: ANDANTE CON VARAZIONI / KREUTZER SONATA / EDWIN M LOTT, a butterfly and various drawings or prints. This is one of a set of seven monochrome trompe l’oeil (deceive the eye) paintings that were painted for the architect Denis Martineau (1907-1975), the previous owner and donor of Mompesson House. The others themes include: Architecture, Agriculture, Art and War flanked by two paintings of urns in a niches which may have reflected the commissioner’s interests and loosely refer to some of the liberal and mechanic arts.

Summary

Oil painting on canvas laid down on panel, Trompe l'oeil (Music) by Martin Battersby (1914 - Lewes 1982), 1950-60. A painting on the theme of music, with a classical portrait medallion, guitar, recorder, mask, miniature violin, frontispiece to the Kreutzer Sonata, sheet music, a butterfly and various drawings or prints. plaque containing face, below which is sheet music the bottom one of which reads 'ANDANTE CON VARAZIONI / KREUTZER SONATA / EDWIN M LOTT' and drawings of musical instruments overhung by a guitar, a mask, a recorder and miniature violin?-type instrument with long fingerboard. Framed and glazed.

Provenance

Commissioned by Denis Martineau (1907-1975) the last owner of Mompesson House

Makers and roles

Martin Battersby (1914 - Lewes 1982), publisher

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