Jean Marie Delattre, Jacques Esnaut & Michel Rapilly
Portrait of Jean-Philippe Rameau
1761-1839
Scroll
Jean Marie Delattre, Jacques Esnaut & Michel Rapilly
Portrait of Jean-Philippe Rameau
1761-1839
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 290 × 220 mm. (11 7/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Plate: 175 × 120 mm. (6 7/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
Image: 155 × 100 mm. (6 1/8 × 3 15/16 in.)
Object Number
1984.81.4381
Jean-Philippe Rameau (25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François Couperin.
Inscribed: Recto: in plate: "J. Pil. Rameau / Né a Dijon le 25 Septembre 1683"; "Delatre sc."; "A Paris ches Esnauts et Rapilly rue St. Jacques a la Ville de Coutances A. P. D. R."