Fabry Garat (1774-after 1825), his portrait, his lyre-guitar: Parisian anticomania from Madame Vigée-Lebrun’s « Greek supper » to the travels of the « Lyre of Anacreon » in Spain and Russia
Résumé
The tenor Fabry Garat, brother of the famous baritone Pierre Garat (1764-1823), left about fifty collections of romances, a lyre-guitar built for him by Ignace Pleyel in 1809, and a very beautiful portrait of him painted in 1808 by Adèle Romany (1769-1846), who exhibited it at the Salon in the Louvre. We will show how exceptional portraits of women with lyre-guitars, a multitude of anacreontic romances, and a prolific and short-lived musical press celebrate this salon anticomania initiated in 1788 by Madame Vigée-Lebrun during her famous "Greek supper".
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