Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck

Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck
ArtistJoseph Duplessis
Year1775
TypeOil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions99.5 cm × 80.5 cm (39.2 in × 31.7 in)
LocationKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck is a 1775 portrait painting by the French artist Joseph Duplessis featuring the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It shows him sitting at a spinet.

Celebrated for his operas, Gluck has made his name at the Habsburg court in Vienna. He sat for Duplessis, a fashionable portraitist, during an extended visit to Paris in the mid-1770.

Gluck was particularly pleased with the finished result, which he hung with pride in his house. The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1775 at the Louvre. A bust of Gluck by Jean-Antoine Houdon was also displayed. The picture is now in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

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