Soldier playing the theorbo

Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest (1815-1891)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1865

Height:

29.2 cm  (11 1/2 in.)

Width:

21.9 cm  (8 5/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on wood

Description

Soldier playing a theorbo and singing.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Theorbo [3473] (19th-century theorbo that appears to have metal frets, an open sound hole and single strings (11 over the fingerboard and 5 unfingered bass strings on the extended neck))

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Notes

According to the Met Museum notes on this painting, the model for the soldier was Jacob Leusen.

RIdIM record id

3669