The dance

Longhi, Pietro (ca. 1701-1785) (attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1745-1750
Height:
61.7 cm  (24 5/16 in.)
Width:
49.7 cm  (19 9/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
School:
Venetian School

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection[Museum inv. no.: 1932.52]

Description

Man playing a wind instrument (flageolet?) for dancing peasant children.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flageolet [3946] (Wind instrument, perhaps a flageolet)

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) 264 pa 85. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1715