Adèle Romany was known primarily for her portraits of musicians, artists, and theatrical performers from fashionable circles in early 19th-century Paris. Here she portrays the composer, teacher and singer Joseph Dominique Fabry Garat playing a lyre guitar. Fabry Garat composed a number of simple pieces for voice and instrument known as romances. (http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/joseph-dominique-fabry-garat-playing-a-lyre-guitar-521609)