Le concert céleste

Unknown (French)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1510-1515
Height:
62.8 cm  (24 3/4 in.)
Width:
48.6 cm  (19 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood panel
Place of creation:
Rouen (France)

Additional titles

Virgin and Child with angels and saints

    Item location

  • Musée de Cluny
    [Museum inv. no.: Cl. 14102 a, Cl. 14102 b, Cl. 23889]

Description

Around the Virgin and Child (center panel) are gathered Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Anthony and possibly Saint Job, considered the patron saint of musicians, as well as a cantor and a composer (left panel). In the right panel, King David holds a harp as an angel plucks the strings of a lute and another blows a shawm. The composer, perhaps Antoine Brumel, holds a score.

People as subjects

David, King of Israel (Musician portrait)
Brumel, Antoine (ca. 1460-ca.1512) (Composer portrait)

Iconclass

11FF4222(+5)
Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child sitting on her knee (Christ-child to Mary's left) - FF - the Christ-child to Mary's right (+ donor(s), supplicant(s), whether or not with patron saint(s))
11I62(DAVID)32
David as musician, usually playing the harp
48C713
portrait of composer

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Lute [3394] (held left-handed)
Shawm [4258]

Musical works

legible music notation
sheet with visible mensural notation

RIdIM images


Entire triptych

Left panel

Right panel

Image URLs

image link 1
Musée de Cluny (with numerous detail images)

Bibliographic references

Hatter, Jane. "Fashioning an enduring musical identity in image, sound and stone", Early music 48/4 (November 2020) 427-439, illus.3-4, ex.2.

RIdIM record id

7177