Harem scene

Mowbray, Henry Siddons (1858-1928)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1884
Height:
43.2 cm  (17 in.)
Width:
55.9 cm  (22 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    American paintings and sculpture[Museum inv. no.: 26.158.3]

Description

Three women lounging in a harem, one of them, on the far right, playing a type of cistre or cittern.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cittern [3106] (8-strings, or 4-courses, with a body shaped somewhat like a small guitar but more pear-shaped with a narrower upper bout. The top of the tuning head is curved and pointed.)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3421