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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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