Bacchic revels

Platzer, Johann Georg (1704-1761)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1740
Height:
18.5 cm  (7 5/16 in.)
Width:
25.9 cm  (10 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on copper

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1974.14]A. A. McKay Fund

Description

A woman playing a tambourine, two satyrs playing a transverse flute and a syrinx, and a putto playing a wind instrument.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093]
Panpipe [4024] (syrinx)
Tambourine [2746]
Wind instruments [3730]

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) 239 pa 84. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1724