La charmeuse de serpents

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1907
Height:
167.0 cm  (65 3/4 in.)
Width:
189.5 cm  (74 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

The snake charmer

    Item location

  • Musée d’Orsay
    [Museum inv. no.: RF 1937 7]

Description

Depiction of a jungle scene with a woman playing flute while a snake is draped around her head. A larger snake stretches horizontally toward her from a tree, and other snakes are gathered at her feet. The Musée d'Orsay describes the painting as "a black Eve in a disquieting Garden of Eden".

Iconclass

25F42
snakes

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093]

Image URLs

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Wikimedia Commons image

Bibliographic references

Lallement, Nicole and Brigitte Devaux. "Inventaire des tableaux à sujets musicaux du XVIIIe siècle au musée du château de Versailles (II)", Musique, images, instruments: Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale 10 (2008) 244, no. 117.

RIdIM record id

2823