Still life with military musical instruments

Vallayer-Coster, Anne (1744-1818)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1771

Height:

160.0 cm  (63 in.)

Width:

129.5 cm  (51 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

This still-life painting depicts two military side drums (one lying flat supporting a natural horn) the other tilted on far right. In the background two bassoons. In the right center a pair of cymbals and two natural trumpets (two trumpet bells are visible).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Side drum [2729]
Natural horn [4126]
Bassoon [3795]
Cymbals [2451]
Natural trumpet [4419]

Bibliographic references

Kahng, Eik and Marianne Roland Michel. Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the court of Marie-Antoinette (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2002) 60, Fig. 1.

RIdIM record id

4545