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.Prohaska pp. 110–11
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.Tolley p.137 A bust of Gluck by Jean-Antoine Houdon was also displayed.Poulet p.187 The picture is now in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
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