Still-life of musical instruments on a spinet with a fig

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

mid-17th century

Height:

103.0 cm  (40 9/16 in.)

Width:

144.0 cm  (56 11/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Lying on table top covered with rug is a spinet, with a fig resting on the left corner. Lying on the top of the spinet are two early mandolins (mandola or mandole), a lute and, under a guitar lies a recorder (end only showing), violin and bow with, on the far right, a cello (only neck and scroll of instrument showing). A sheet of illegible music is hanging off the table.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Spinet [2256]
Recorder [4039]
Violin [3573]
Violoncello [3582]
Guitar [3237]
Mandole [3397]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 2

Bibliographic references

Abate, Marco, ed. Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa (Milano: Skira, 1996) 164-165, cat. no. 15. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

RIdIM record id

4552