Resumen de Panini and Ghezzi: the portraits in the Louvre 'Musical performance at the Teatro Argentina'
Panini's painting in the Louvre of the musical performance given on 12th July 1747 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, to celebrate the marriage of the Dauphin to Marie-Josephe of Saxony (Fig. 1),' commissioned by Cardinal Frederic Jerome de Roye de la Rochefoucauld, French ambassador to the Holy See from July 1746 to March 1748, has a hitherto over- looked private facet, which is important for a proper understanding of the painting, and throws new light on Panini's working methods.
