Ommegang at Antwerp on the Meir

Casteels, Alexander (1658 or 1659 - 1681 or 1682) (attributed to)

Item type:

painting

Height:

133.9 cm  (52 11/16 in.)

Width:

167.0 cm  (65 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

Festival/procession scene (ommegang) with ca. 400 figures, including 15 musicians. Two soldiers, one playing kettle drums, one playing coiled trumpet; three bourgeois playing frame drum, bass viol, and an unclear, end-blown wind instrument; four females, one playing lute and singing, one playing bass viol and singing, one holding music and singing, and one playing transverse flute; one male playing violin and singing; and five male actors, two as angels playing straight trumpets, and three as triton, playing end-blown, curved conical horns

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kettledrum [2887]
Trumpet [4446]
Frame drum [2598]
Viol [3597]
Wind instruments [3730]
Lute [3394]
Transverse flute [4093]
Violin [3573]
Horn [4118]
End-blown trumpet [6556]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) vol.2, pl. L, #115.

RIdIM record id

417