Muziek

Lairesse, Gerard de (1640-1711)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1680

Height:

34.3 cm  (13 1/2 in.)

Width:

27.1 cm  (10 11/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

etching

Additional titles

Description

Music, personified in a woman seated on the clouds, is playing a viola da gamba.

Iconclass

48C70
'Musica', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ music; 'Musica'(Ripa)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tenor viol [3591] (No strings (Perhaps the strings were to be added in a later state).)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Roy, A. Gérard de Lairesse (1640-1711) (Paris: Athena, 1992) 474, cat. nr. G. 102.

RIdIM record id

3107