Ballad singer at a shrine of the Virgin

Magnasco, Alessandro (1667-1749)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1720-1725

Height:

46.6 cm  (18 3/8 in.)

Width:

37.0 cm  (14 9/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with traces of brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to pale brownish-gray)

Description

One man playing guitar, another singing; several kneeling worshipers in the foreground.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

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) 265 dr 85. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1714