Allegorie op de vergankelijkheid van de aardse genoegens

Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Cornelis (1562-1638)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1614
Height:
157.0 cm  (61 13/16 in.)
Width:
193.5 cm  (76 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

Allegory of the transience of earthly pleasures
L'age d'or: Bacchanale
The golden age: bacchanale

    Item location

  • Szépművészeti Múzeum
    [Museum inv. no.: 2062]

Description

A bacchanale scene with three women singing, a man playing the lute and a small consort in the upper right corner (three males playing violin, violoncello, and a transverse flute).

Iconclass

41CC52
carousal, drinking-bout, orgy - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (only neck and pegbox are visible)
Violin [3573]
Violoncello [3582] (5 strings, underhand bowing)
Transverse flute [4093]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Garas, Klára. The Budapest Gallery: Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts. 2nd ed. (Budapest : Corvina Press, 1977) 158.

Pigler, Andor. Katalog der Galerie Alter Meister (Tübingen: E. Wasmuth, 1968) 152.

RIdIM record id

450