Port de mer au soleil couchant

Lorrain, Claude (1604-1682)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1639
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Musée du Louvre
    [Museum inv. no.: 4715]

Description

A sea port is shown with the sunset in the background. City buildings are on the left, ships on the right, and a sandy beach is shown at the center bottom. People are on the beach. At the left-hand side of the beach, a man is seated on a log, facing away from the viewer, playing a guitar. A lute is resting face-down on the log.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]
Lute [3394]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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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) 194, no. 42.

RIdIM record id

2438