Sapho rappelée a la vie, par le charme de la musique

Ducis, Louis (1775-1847)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1811
Height:
115.2 cm  (45 3/8 in.)
Width:
146.3 cm  (57 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

Sappho recalled to life by the charm of music

    Item location

  • Norton Simon Foundation
    [Museum inv. no.: F.1983.10.P]

Description

Three ancient Greek musicians, one woman playing lyre, one woman playing aulos, and one man playing kithara.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501] (7 strings, only partially visible)
Aulos [4173]
Kithara [4940] (5 strings)

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Bibliotheque Nationale, Inventaire du fonds français aprés 1800, (Paris, 1942) vol. III, 169, no. 51.

RIdIM record id

1796