La Peri

Moreau, Gustave (1826-1898)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1865
Height:
35.7 cm  (14 1/16 in.)
Width:
25.5 cm  (10 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
Graphite, with brush and black ink, gray wash, and touches of gold metallic paint, heightened with traces of white gouache, on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1973.722]Print Department Fund

Description

Peri (one of a race of superhuman beings in Persian mythology) rides on a flying beast. He holds a string instrument with a long, straight neck, much like a sitar. The body of the instrument is not visible.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Sitar [3456] (He holds a string instrument with a long, straight neck, much like a sitar. The body of the instrument is not visible.)

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) 341dr93. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1685