Sketch after a composition of a procession of figures playing musical instruments

Saint-Aubin, Gabriel de (1724-1780)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1760-1764
Height:
13.0 cm  (5 1/8 in.)
Width:
17.2 cm  (6 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
Graphite, pen, wash and watercolor on paper

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1946.383]Mrs. P. Palmer Sundry Account and Herman Waldeck Fund

Description

Figures playing lyre(?), wind instrument(?), and violin(?). (All sketches of instruments are suggestive only.)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]
Wind instruments [3730]
Violin [3573]

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) 217 da 83. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1749