L'adoration des bergers

Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto (1609-1664)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1659
Height:
68.0 cm  (26 3/4 in.)
Width:
52.0 cm  (20 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Musée du Louvre
    [Museum inv. no.: INV. 240]

Description

A large wind instrument is held by one of the shepherds (lower right of painting).

People as subjects

Jesus Christ
St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
St. Joseph (born late 1st century BCE, died 1st century CE)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Wind instruments [3730]

Image URLs

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image with catalogue record
image link 2
enlarged image

Bibliographic references

Lallement, Nicole, and Brigitte Devaux. "Inventaire des tableaux à sujets musicaux du musée du Louvre: I. L'école italienne des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles", Musique, images, instruments: Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale 2 (1997) 237, no. 9. RILM 1996-13124.

Brejon de Lavergnée, Arnauld, and Isabelle Compin. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du Musée du Louvre. II: Italie, Espagne, Allemagne, Grande-Bretagne et divers (Paris : Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1981), 165. ISBN 2711801349. OCLC 7812170.

RIdIM record id

2837