St. Cecilia

Wiertz, Antoine (1806-1865)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1850
Height:
48.6 cm  (19 1/8 in.)
Width:
34.4 cm  (13 9/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel
Place of creation:
Nederland

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1977.484]Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Marsh, Jr.

Description

St. Cecilia, seated, with an arched harp resting on the ground. Against her knees, an angel plays an angle harp. A group of objects on the ground is unclear; it includes, perhaps, a small triangular harp.

People as subjects

St. Cecilia

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Arched harp [3266] (Arched harp resting on the ground)
Harp [3285] (Angel plays an angle harp. A group of objects on the ground is unclear; it includes, perhaps, a small triangular harp.)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford. New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987. 377pa96.

RIdIM record id

1649