Orpheus playing the lyre to Hades and Persephone, from Orpheus and Eurydice or The metamorphoses

Wauters, Michel (died 1679) (workshop of)

Ykens, Pieter (before 1648-1695) (after a work of)

Spierinckx, Pieter (1635-1711) (after a work of)

Item type:

textile, clothing and costume

Date of creation:

ca. 1685

Height:

328.1 cm  (129 3/16 in.)

Width:

299.1 cm  (117 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave

Place of creation:

Antwerpen

Iconclass

94O51
Orpheus playing the lyre
94O2121
through his music Orpheus induces Pluto and/or Proserpina to let Eurydice go

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

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) 5 (97da77). RILM 1988-275

RIdIM record id

2000