Court amusements with two monkeys

Unknown (German)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1515
Height:
23.0 cm  (9 1/16 in.)
Width:
23.3 cm  (9 3/16 in.)
sheet: 33.7 x 26.3 cm (13 1/4 x 10 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1964.8.1761]

Description

In the background, three men playing two folded trumpets and a shawm(?).

Iconclass

44B154
court festival

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Natural trumpet [4419]
Shawm [4258]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3936