Portrait of a Violinist

Nationalmuseum houses a major collection of French 18thcentury paintings. The pictorial qualities of the Rococo are to some extent reminiscent in this portrait by Anne Vallayer-Coster. The painting is considered one of the artist’s masterpieces. The genre-like picture shows probably one of the artist’s sisters. The model holds a violin with broken strings. On her lap she has a notes sheet and a bo…