Nicolas Regnier (Niccolò Renieri)
Divine Inspiration of Musiccirca 1640

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Geffen Galleries, Shaping Dutch Identity: The Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter Collection

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: Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA's 50th Anniversary. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015.