The troubadour

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1868-1873
Height:
83.6 cm  (32 15/16 in.)
Width:
56.8 cm  (22 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on fabric

    Item location

  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 1958.23]

Description

From the Cleveland Museum website: "The troubadour, a medieval traveling poet and entertainer, was a popular subject in 19th-century French art. Associated with chivalry and courtly love, the theme reflects a broader, romantic fascination with France’s medieval past. Although Daumier was particularly inspired by the troubadour paintings of French Rococo artist Jean-Antoine Watteau of the 1700s, he rendered the subject here in a powerful style of simplified, muscular form that appealed to modern artists of his own time."

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Colascione [3337]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

2064