Nicolas Regnier (Niccolò Renieri)
Divine Inspiration of Musiccirca 1640

On view:

Geffen Galleries, floor 3

Oil painting of two young women with laurel wreath and violin facing each other across a red-draped table covered with stringed instruments and musical scores, lit from the right against a column-flanked background

Nicolas Regnier (Niccolò Renieri), Divine Inspiration of Music, circa 1640, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Resnick, Mr. and Mrs. Jo Swerling, Mathilda L. Calnan from the estate of Charles Alexander Loeser, Mr. and Mrs. David Bright, Alexander M. Lewyt, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, Isaacs Brothers Company, anonymous donor in memory of Mary M. Edmunds, William Randolph Hearst Collection, Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Collection, and Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Fund by exchange, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker: Nicolas Regnier (Niccolò Renieri)
Southern Netherlands, 1591-1667, active Italy
Title: Divine Inspiration of Music
Date Made: circa 1640
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 47 1/4 × 78 in. (120.02 × 198.12 cm) Framed: 55 × 82 1/2 × 3 in. (139.7 × 209.55 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Resnick, Mr. and Mrs. Jo Swerling, Mathilda L. Calnan from the estate of Charles Alexander Loeser, Mr. and Mrs. David Bright, Alexander M. Lewyt, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, Isaacs Brothers Company, anonymous donor in memory of Mary M. Edmunds, William Randolph Hearst Collection, Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Collection, and Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Fund by exchange
Accession Number: 82.7
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography: Phil Freshman. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Report, July 1, 1981-June 30, 1983. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA's 50th Anniversary. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015.

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Nicolas Regnier (Niccolò Renieri)
Divine Inspiration of Musiccirca 1640

On view:

Geffen Galleries, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Nicolas Regnier (Niccolò Renieri)
Southern Netherlands, 1591-1667, active Italy
Title: Divine Inspiration of Music
Date Made: circa 1640
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 47 1/4 × 78 in. (120.02 × 198.12 cm) Framed: 55 × 82 1/2 × 3 in. (139.7 × 209.55 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Resnick, Mr. and Mrs. Jo Swerling, Mathilda L. Calnan from the estate of Charles Alexander Loeser, Mr. and Mrs. David Bright, Alexander M. Lewyt, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, Isaacs Brothers Company, anonymous donor in memory of Mary M. Edmunds, William Randolph Hearst Collection, Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Collection, and Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Fund by exchange
Accession Number: 82.7
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography: Phil Freshman. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Report, July 1, 1981-June 30, 1983. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA's 50th Anniversary. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015.

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