Month of May: Scene of May Day festival

Unknown (French)


Item type:
textile, clothing and costume
Date of creation:
1723-1744
Height:
312.4 cm  (123 in.)
Width:
452.0 cm  (177 15/16 in.)

    Item location

  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 1944.133]

Description

In the foreground, mounted and seated figures watch an archery contest. One man rests his arm on a large snare drum while holding a drum stick in his hand. At center, in the middleground, one man plays a keyless, cylindrical transverse flute and another plays a side drum.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cylindrical drum [2532] (large snare drum)
Transverse flute [4093] (keyless, cylindrical)
Side drum [2729] (r.h. overhand grip; l.h. underhand grip)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

2100