Count Ferdinand Adolf von Plettenberg and his Family
by TOURNIÈRES, Robert, Oil on canvas, 92 x 74 cm
Tourni�res 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