A Franco-Flemish double-manual harpsichord, originally a transposing harpsichord

  made in Antwerp in 1617, and then ravalé in Paris, possibly by François Étienne Blanchet in 1750 and then in

stages by Jacques Barberini, Paris, c.1775 and Nicolas Hoffman, 1786.

 

 

The brown-haired Odalisque by Francois Boucher, 1742

Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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A detail of the outside of the lid showing related images

 

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