Chinoiserie met musicerend gezelschap

Lovinfosse, Pierre-Michel (1745-1821)

Item type:

mural

Date of creation:

1785-1788

Height:

318.0 cm  (125 3/16 in.)

Width:

139.5 cm  (54 15/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on paper

Description

A painted wallpaper mural. In a Chinese scene, a boy plays a triangle in a left-handed manner. The triangle has ten jingling rings, which is more than most triangle depictions.

Iconclass

48C7344(TRIANGLE)
48CC7532

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Triangle (with rings)
Drum [2585]
End-blown trumpet [6556]
Jingle [2873]
Long-necked lute
Cymbals [2451]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Berry, Mark. Index of triangle iconography (Bowling Green, Kentucky: Living Sound Publications, 2017).

RIdIM record id

13510

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