Antiquated music (portrait of Sarah Sagehorn Frishmuth)

Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1900
Height:
246.4 cm  (97 in.)
Width:
182.9 cm  (72 in.)
Framed size: 9 feet 1 inches × 7 feet 1 3/4 inches, 3 inches (276.9 × 217.8 × 7.6 cm)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
United States

    Item location

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 1929-184-7]Gift of Mrs. Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline Williams, 1929

Description

This is a portrait of Sarah Sagehorn Frishmuth who sits among at least 20 musical instruments she has collected from around the world. She is sitting down resting her arm on a keyboard instrument (spinet?) and holds a viola d'amore in her hand.

People as subjects

Frishmuth, Sarah (1842–1926)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Stringed instruments [3101]
Keyboard instruments [2230]
Wind instruments [3730]
Percussion instruments [2370]
Hurdy-gurdy [3305]
Bagpipe [3746]
Lute [3394]
Kit [3571]
Viola d'amore [3608]
Cylindrical drum [2532]
Spinet [2256]
Kissar [3496]
Panpipe [4024]
Dilruba [3128]

RIdIM images


© Philadelphia Museum of Art

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Kirkpatrick, Sidney. The Revenge of Thomas Eakins (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2006) 460-462. ISBN 9780300128482.

RIdIM record id

3354