The death of Orpheus

Levy, Henri Leopold (1840-1904)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1870
Height:
46.5 cm  (18 5/16 in.)
Width:
55.8 cm  (22 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1977.4]Levy, Henri Leopold (French painter, The Harold T. Martin Trust

Description

The beheaded Orpheus holds 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) 337pa93. RILM 1988-275.

Notes

Inscribed lower right: Henri Lévy.

RIdIM record id

1687