Instruments in the boudoir from Hotel d'Hocqueville, Rouen

Guéroult, François (1745-1804) (attributed to)

Item type:

furniture

Date of creation:

ca. 1785

Height:

408.7 cm  (160 15/16 in.)

Width:

436.6 cm  (171 7/8 in.)

Depth:

283.2 cm  (111 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

wood and plaster, in part painted and gilded, window and mirror glass, marble table tops

Description

Panel: One-third of the way down from the top are two straight trumpets crossed behind three intertwined dolphins. Near the bottom on the left, a putto plays an end-blown conical pipe; on the right, a putto plays a transverse flute. Right door: Near the bottom left is a lute, a straight trumpet is crossed behind the lute, and possibly a transverse flute also behind the lute with only the end visible. Near the right is a musette. The end of a possible transverse flute is partly visible. Left door: Near the bottom right in the foreground is a trompe, with a tambourine inside the coil of the trompe. Crossed behind the tambourine are an oboe and a bassoon.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown trumpet [6556]
End-blown flute [3940] (end-blown)
Transverse flute [4093] (left handed)
Lute [3394] (5 strings)
Tambourine [2746] (with jingles)
Oboe [4232] (reed visible)
Bassoon [3795] (reed visible)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

2111