Putti musicians in a medallion, surrounded by musical attributes, flowers, and fruit (over door)

Vallayer-Coster, Anne (1744-1818) (follower or school of)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

late 18th century

Height:

84.1 cm  (33 1/8 in.)

Width:

137.2 cm  (54 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Three putti on a medallion playing instruments: kettle drum, coiled horn and tambourine; surrounding the medallion are a flute, a shawm or piffaro (?) (only end visible), a lyre (six strings), a clarinet(?), a violin with bow (back view), a harp (only upper part visible), a guitar, a hunting horn(?), and an open music book (music and lyrics legible).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kettledrum [2887]
Horn [4118]
Tambourine [2746]
Transverse flute [4093]
Piffaro [4239]
Harp [3285]
Clarinet [3836]
Violin [3573]
Guitar [3237]
Hunting horn [4138]
Lyre [3501] (six strings)

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3634