Youth with a flute

Allston, Washington (1779-1843)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1816-1818
Height:
15.7 cm  (6 3/16 in.)
Width:
7.6 cm  (3 in.)
Technique / Medium:
black ink over graphite on off-white laid paper

Additional titles

Young shepherd
Flute-playing Arcadian youth standing against a tree

Description

In a lightly-suggested outdoor landscape, a bare-footed young man in Arcadian attire leans against a tree and plays an end-blown wind instrument (probably a type of flute)

Iconclass

48CC75
making music; musician with instrument - CC- out of doors
35
pastorals, Arcadian scenes

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown flute [3940]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5661