The Attributes of Civilian Music and The Attributes of Military Music are a pair of oil-on-canvas paintings in oval format by
Jean Siméon Chardin, commissioned in 1766 by
Charles-Nicolas Cochin for the pediments above the doors to the music room in his Château de Bellevue at
Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine). They were exhibited at the Salon in 1767 and installed in the Château the following year. The Château's goods were later confiscated by the state and the paintings were sold at auction. They were acquired by the portrait painter
Jean-Sébastien Rouillard, then by François Marcille and his son
Eudoxe. Via a gift from Eudoxe's descendants and from the
Société des amis du Louvre, the
Louvre Museum was able to purchase them in 2010.
The Attributes of Civilian Music and The Attributes of Military Music are a pair of oil-on-canvas paintings in oval format by
Jean Siméon Chardin, commissioned in 1766 by
Charles-Nicolas Cochin for the pediments above the doors to the music room in his Château de Bellevue at
Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine). They were exhibited at the Salon in 1767 and installed in the Château the following year. The Château's goods were later confiscated by the state and the paintings were sold at auction. They were acquired by the portrait painter
Jean-Sébastien Rouillard, then by François Marcille and his son
Eudoxe. Via a gift from Eudoxe's descendants and from the
Société des amis du Louvre, the
Louvre Museum was able to purchase them in 2010.