# Jean-Philippe Rameau with Violin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [AVED, Jacques-André-Joseph]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 117 x 38 cm ## Commentary Jean-Philippe Rameau with Violin c. 1728 Oil on canvas, 117 x 38 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon One of the charming aspects of the first half of the eighteenth century French painting was the considerable number of portraits that now constitute a gallery of the notable figures of the day. Among the finest examples is a rather warm likeness of Jean-Philippe Rameau in a red jerkin by Jacques Aved. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 2 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/rameau\_castor.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux, March</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [A Lady with Embroidery]() - [Madame Crozat]() - [Portrait of Carl Gustav Tessin, Swedish Politician]() - [Portrait of Marc de Villiers]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()