Lully as a child at mademoiselle de montpensier. Another similar painting was exhibited by the artist in paris at the salon of 1840 (number 1607 of the booklet) under the title lully child at mademoiselle de montpensier, with the following description:
lully, barely twelve years old, employed in mademoiselle's kitchens, had just composed the tune au clair de la lune, which he had all the cooks sing in chorus every day; mademoiselle, pleasantly surprised by this harmony, wanted to have the young scullion musician heard by lambert, music master of the king's chamber, who, immediately recognizing lully's happy disposition, obtained that he would be admitted to the number of mademoiselle's pages, and himself wanted, through his talent, to contribute to developing the genius of this artist who had become so famous. Object Type: painting. Date: 1849. Dimensions: 73 x 59.5 cm (28.7 x 23.4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas.
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