Still life

Harnett, William Michael (1848-1892)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1888
Height:
35.6 cm  (14 in.)
Width:
43.5 cm  (17 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
New York (New York, United States)

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    American paintings and sculpture[Museum inv. no.: 67.155.1]

Description

A tabletop supporting an arrangement of objects: worn books with gilt spines and fanned pages, a candlestick with candle, a Dutch jar, a piccolo, some stained cloth, and music scores (two with the title Rigoletto and one with music, partially legible, of "Hélas quelle douleur").

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Piccolo flute [4029]

Musical works

Verdi, Giuseppe -- Rigoletto
Hélas! quelle doulourlegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3497