TOURNIÈRES, Robert
(b. 1667, Caen, d. 1752, Caen)

Count Ferdinand Adolf von Plettenberg and his Family

1727
Oil on canvas, 92 x 74 cm
Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest

Tourničres depicted Count Adolf von Plettenberg with his wife and two children. Family harmony and a good name earned by a productive life are fundamental ideals in the bourgeois set of values and they appear in this painting.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 18 minutes):
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, suite