Snake charmer at Tangier, Africa

Tiffany, Louis Comfort (1848-1933)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1872
Height:
69.9 cm  (27 1/2 in.)
Width:
97.8 cm  (38 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    American paintings and sculpture[Museum inv. no.: 21.170]Signed and dated (lower left): Louis C. Tiffany - [illegible]

Description

In a public place, a man is holding a snake in his left hand and facing away, while three seated men play instruments (two play drums and one plays an end-blown flute).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cylindrical drum [2532] (2 cylindrical drums)
End-blown flute [3940]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3419