Trumpeters

Unknown (Flemish)

Item type:

textile, clothing and costume

Date of creation:

ca. 1510-1525

Height:

205.7 cm  (81 in.)

Width:

127.0 cm  (50 in.)

Technique / Medium:

wool, silk

Place of creation:

Bruxelles (België)

Description

Created from a patchwork of tapestry fragments, likely as a pendant to the Ladies Conversing with a Gentleman tapestry (museum no. T19s10) of similar size. The two tapestries were purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner probably for about 1,800 francs from an unknown dealer in Paris on about 2 June 1892...[Source: Gardner Museum website] The scene in this one depicts three musicians in ceremonial attire playing trumpets; a fourth figure, in different attire, can be seen behind them.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown trumpet [6556] (three straight, valveless trumpets of differing length, two directed toward the sky and the longest one (possibly a slide trumpet) directed downward.)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

5591