Dear Jaroslaw, It may be some sort of sport (in a modern biological sense), but I suspect either the painter didn't quite get it right - see how the first string is fastened not to the to the body of the bridge but to the treble point! - or the neck is indeed incorrectly set (maybe in converting from an instrument with fewer courses the neck was not canted over to ensure the bridge remained central.......
Do we know if she actually played the lute or is this just an example of an elegant pose adopted simply for pictorial delight? Martyn --- On Thu, 19/7/12, JarosAA'aw Lipski <[email protected]> wrote: From: JarosAA'aw Lipski <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 19 July, 2012, 20:45 here is a link if interested [1]http://uploads7.wikipaintings.org/images/antoine-pesne/portrait-of-e leonore-louise-albertine-comtesse-von-schlieben-sanditten-freifrau-von- keyserlingk.jpg JL To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://uploads7.wikipaintings.org/images/antoine-pesne/portrait-of-eleonore-louise-albertine-comtesse-von-schlieben-sanditten-freifrau-von-keyserlingk.jpg 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
