2081. LULLI AND HIS FELLOW MUSICIANS AT THE FRENCH COURT.
Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659-1743). See 903.
Jean Baptiste de Lulli (or Lully) was the celebrated composer (1633-1687) for whose music Louis XIV. had a great predilection. For him the King created a new company of musicians called Les Petits Violons or La Bande des Seize. Lulli composed also the incidental music for Molière's plays. The portraits of Lulli, says a contemporary, are fairly like him, but he was smaller and stouter than they show.
2082. A FLORENTINE LADY; on the reverse, A SYMBOLIC ANGEL.
School of Botticelli (Florentine: 1447-1510). See 1034.
The portrait is supposed to represent the unknown artist's wife; the angel holds an armillary sphere.