Saints and music-making angels in glory (detail)

Gaulli, Giovanni Battista (1639-1709)


Item type:
drawing
Height:
41.3 cm  (16 1/4 in.)
Width:
52.8 cm  (20 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    The Elisha Whittelsey Collection[Museum inv. no.: 61.178.1]

Description

Group of angels with a group of seven non-performers. One angel is playing violin, a second is playing lute, two are singing and holding music, with the remaining four angels playing positive organ, transverse flute, tambourine, and bass viola da gamba.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Lute [3394]
Viol [3597]
Tambourine [2746]
Transverse flute [4093]
Positive organ [2268]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Bean, Jacob. Seventeenth century Italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979) no. 223.

RIdIM record id

733