La fête villageoise

Lorrain, Claude (1604-1682)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1639
Height:
103.0 cm  (40 9/16 in.)
Width:
135.0 cm  (53 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Musée du Louvre
    [Museum inv. no.: 4714]

Description

The painting portrays a small festival taking place outdoors. A crowd is gathered around a man and woman dancing in the center. In the foreground, two men and a woman are seated on a log. One man is playing a flute, one playing a bagpipe, and the woman is playing a tambourine.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746]
Transverse flute [4093]
Tambourine [2746]

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. 43.

RIdIM record id

2439