Putti playing musical instruments around a vessel and drapery

Gillot, Claude (1673-1722)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1688-1722

Height:

15.8 cm  (6 1/4 in.)

Width:

20.6 cm  (8 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

drawing on paper, pen and grey ink, red and brown wash

Description

Fourteen putti surrounding a vessel and drapery. Some putti are playing musical instruments including tambourine, flute, and triangle with jingling rings, and a stringed instrument (probably some type of guitar) having eight strings and a bent tuning head.

Iconclass

92D19164
cupids together with attributes of the arts, sciences, etc.
48C7344(TRIANGLE)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Triangle [3005] (A closed triangle, held high, with several jingling rings)
Tambourine [2746]
Guitar [3237] (8 strings)
Transverse flute [4093]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Berry, Mark. Index of triangle iconography (Bowling Green, Kentucky: Living Sound Publications, 2017).

RIdIM record id

7146

Data provider

Dr. Mark Berry