After dinner

Mount, William Sidney (1807-1868)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1834

Height:

27.6 cm  (10 7/8 in.)

Width:

27.8 cm  (10 15/16 in.)

framed: 45.1 × 45.1 × 8.6 cm (17 3/4 × 17 3/4 × 3 3/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on wood

Description

Three men seated near a table; one, back to viewer but head turned toward his left, plays a violin while the other two, facing him, listen.

Iconclass

48C75
music making; musician with instrument
48C7521
one person playing string instrument (bowed)
48C7311
violin, fiddle

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Cooper, Helen A., et al. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: American art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008) 71, 134–35, no. 75, ill.

RIdIM record id

6097