Feast of the gods

Brueghel, Jan, the elder (1568-1625)

Balen, Hendrick van, I (1575-1632)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1618
Height:
51.0 cm  (20 1/16 in.)
Width:
78.0 cm  (30 11/16 in.)

Additional titles

Les noces de Thétis et de Pélée avec Apollon et le concert des muses ou Le festin des dieux

    Item location

  • Musée du Louvre
    [Museum inv. no.: D.L. 1973-21]

Description

A feast scene with Apollo and the muses making music in the upper right hand corner. Four of the muses are playing instruments. The other five are singing. In the foreground there are many children playing. Behind them is the feast table, where the wedding party of Thétis and Pélée sit. Apollo is either playing a violin or a fiddle.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Violoncello [3582]
Transverse flute [4093]
Shawm [4258]
Mandora [3399]
Viol [3597]
Cornett [3868]
Cornett [3868]
Violin [3573]
Fiddle [3142]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century, vol. 2 (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) 23, Cat. #96, Plate #XX.

RIdIM record id

374