Un Maure musicien des rues à Tanger (A Moorish street musician in Tangier)

Raffet, Auguste (1804-1860)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1847

Height:

28.4 cm  (11 3/16 in.)

Width:

20.7 cm  (8 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor with graphite underdrawing

Description

Watercolor sketch of a man standing (facing front) and playing a gimbri (guinbri); in the background are uncolored sketches of side, back, and head views of the same figure.

Iconclass

48C756
popular music, street music
48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guinbri [3368]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

6194