L'Été ou Cérès et ses compagnes implorant le soleil

Durameau, Louis-Jacques (1733-1796)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1774
Height:
350.0 cm  (137 13/16 in.)
Width:
585.0 cm  (230 5/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Musée du Louvre
    [Museum inv. no.: 4326]

Description

Three musicians holding a transverse flute, tambourine, and cymbals are shown seated in the center looking towards the sky. A clarinet lays on the ground in the lower right corner, leaning on another tambourine.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Clarinet [3836]
Cymbals [2451]
Transverse flute [4093]
Tambourine [2746]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Lallement, Nicole. "Inventaire des tableaux à sujets musicaux du musée du Louvre. II: La peinture française des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 1. tableaux conservés au musée", Musique, images, instruments: Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale 3 (1997) 193, no. 35.

RIdIM record id

2431