Ballet scene from "On the sands"

Gore, Spencer (1878-1914)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1910

Height:

40.6 cm  (16 in.)

Width:

50.8 cm  (20 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Painting presents a view, from a theatre box (house left) overlooking the stage (with twelve dancers), the orchestra pit (with instrumentalists and conductor), and several audience members in an opposite box and first row below.

Iconclass

48C84
ballet, ballet performance
48C842
ballet group, dancers on stage
48C7531
large group of musicians, orchestra
48c77
conductor ~ music
48A712
the audience ~ art performance
48A7295
boxes, loges ~ theatre, etc.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Viola [3561]
Violoncello [3582]
Double bass [3111]
Percussion instruments [2370] (probably bass drum and timpani)
Trumpet [4446]
Trombone [4369]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Spencer Frederick Gore (1878-1914), catalogue (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1983) no. 10.


Marciari-Alexander, Julia. This other Eden: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1998) 176, no. 72.

RIdIM record id

6261