Two flying figures with a lyre (study for Le bois sacré)

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1883
Height:
27.2 cm  (10 11/16 in.)
Width:
47.7 cm  (18 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
Graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan tracing paper, squared in charcoal, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1981.312]Gift of Kasriel Tausk

Description

Woman (female mythological figure?) playing a lyre.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

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) 346dr93. RILM 1988-275.

Notes

Study for "The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses" (original title "Le bois sacré cher aux arts et aux Muses")

RIdIM record id

1683