The rope dance

Defrance, Léonard (1735-1805)


Item type:
painting
Height:
50.5 cm  (19 7/8 in.)
Width:
72.7 cm  (28 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood
School:
Flemish

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 71.105]

Description

A young female acrobat is walking on a rope; a large audience (adults and children seated and standing) watches her; in the background three men playing instruments: a wind instrument (possibly a shawm), a violin and viola da gamba.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shawm [4258]
Violin [3573]
Viola da gamba [3604]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3613