Pilgrims returning from the feast day of the Madonna dell'Arco

Robert, Louis Léopold (1794-1835)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1827
Height:
53.1 cm  (20 15/16 in.)
Width:
75.4 cm  (29 11/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
pencil with white ink corrections

    Item location

  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 1975.27]

Description

Travelers ride on an oxcart and walk and dance alongside. At center, a woman plays a large tambourine for a dancing couple. To the left of them, a man seated on the oxcart plays a large mandolin. Farther left, in the background, a man plays a tambourine. At far right, a man plays a triccaballacca (clappers).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tambourine [2746]
Mandolin [3510] (8 pegs visible)
Clappers [2426] (triccaballacca type)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

1785