Scene galante

Biset, Charles Emmanuel (1633-1710) (workshop of)


Item type:
painting
Height:
35.0 cm  (13 3/4 in.)
Width:
50.5 cm  (19 7/8 in.)

Additional titles

Parable of the prodigal son among the courtesans

    Item location

  • Private collectionFormerly in the collection of Léopold van den Steen de Jehay

Description

Female playing virginal, female holding lute, male playing pipe and tabor, and various non-performers

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Virginal [2257]
Galoubet [3970]
Cylindrical drum [2532]

RIdIM images



Image URLs

image link 2

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century. II (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) 12, cat. #38, plate #XXXVI.

Leppert, Richard D. "Musicology and visual perception: Knowledge as the delimiter of expectation", RIdIM/RCMI Newsletter 2/2 (1977) 12-15. www.jstor.org/stable/41604753.

RIdIM record id

298