S. Cecilia playing the organ

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1620
Height:
27.2 cm  (10 11/16 in.)
Width:
42.7 cm  (16 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

    Item location

  • Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
    [Museum inv. no.: 635]

Description

Oil sketch of Saint Cecilia seated and playing the organ in the clouds, while an angel is crowning her with her wedding wreath and a putto is blowing the bellows on the other side of the instrument.

People as subjects

St. Cecilia (Musician)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Organ [2266]

Image URLs

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RKD record

Bibliographic references

Trnek, Renate. Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien: illustriertes Bestandsverzeichnis (Wien: Die Gemäldegalerie, 1989) 208.

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: an illustrated catalogue raisonné of the work of Peter Paul Rubens based on the material assembled by the late Dr. Ludwig Burchard in twenty-six parts (London: Phaidon, 1968-) vol. 1, n. 24b. ISBN 0714813427.

Held, Julius Samuel. The oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: a critical catalogue (Princeton, N.J.: Published for the National Gallery of Art by Princeton University Press, 1980) no. 32.

RIdIM record id

3001