Saint Cecilia

Meteyard, Sidney Harold (1868-1947)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1913

Height:

78.1 cm  (30 3/4 in.)

Width:

91.4 cm  (36 in.)

Framed: 40 x 45 1/8 x 2 5/8 in. (101.6 x 114.6 x 6.7 cm)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

School:

Birmingham Group

Description

St. Cecilia, wearing a blue dress, sits at an organ while an angel, dressed in green robes and with blue wings, looks on. The saint is playing from a music book and is in the act of turning the page.

People as subjects

St. Cecilia (Musician)

Iconclass

11G(+3)
angels (+ angel(s))
11HH(CECILIA)111(+3)
St. Cecilia making music and/or singing (+ angel(s))

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Portative organ [2267]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Notes

Though the exact date of the painting is unknown, stylistically it fits with other paintings the artist created around 1913.

RIdIM record id

5302