''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

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for the pediments above the doors to the music room in his Château de Bellevue at

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(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

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, then by François Marcille and his son Eudoxe. Via a gift from Eudoxe's descendants and from the

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, the

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was able to purchase them in 2010.

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*http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=32227 *http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=32228 {{DEFAULTSORT:Attributes category:1767 paintings Paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Paintings in the Louvre by French artists Musical instruments in art