Elegant company dining outdoors

Vrancx, Sebastian (1573-1647)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1610
Height:
91.0 cm  (35 13/16 in.)
Width:
126.0 cm  (49 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

Additional titles

Feast in the garden of an Italian palace

    Item location

  • Szépművészeti Múzeum
    [Museum inv. no.: 58.27]

Description

A staged performance is on the right. In the red marble niche stand a gesticulating man and women wearing masks and costumes, and behind the column, on the edge of the canvas, a man is playing the guitar.

Iconclass

48C8543
'commedia dell'arte'
41CC51
banquet of elegant company - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Ember, Ildikó. Music in painting: Music as a symbol in Renaissance and Baroque painting. Trans. by Mary and András Boros-Kazai (Budapest: Corvina, 1984) plate 36. ISBN 9631317234. RILM 1984-6813.

RIdIM record id

3527