Les voix du torrent

Lami, Eugène Louis (1800-1890)

Gendron, Ernest Augustin (1817-1881) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1857

Height:

21.8 cm  (8 9/16 in.)

Width:

16.5 cm  (6 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

lithography

Description

Group of water nymph (undine) musicians. One is playing a plucked string instrument of the cittern or mandolin family, a second is playing an animal horn, a third is playing a gong, and a fourth is striking a bell with the remaining nymphs playing harp, trumpet, cymbals, and a curved horn.

Iconclass

21D1
spirit of water, nix, undine

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Mandolin [3510] (6 tuning pegs visible, possibly a mandola)
Gong [2820]
Harp [3285]
Bell [2381]
End-blown trumpet [6556]
End-blown horn [5177]
Cymbals [2451]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Lithograph print from the original painting by Gendron (RIdIM item 6057)

RIdIM record id

739