La danse chinoise

Boucher, François (1703-1770)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1742
Height:
42.0 cm  (16 9/16 in.)
Width:
65.0 cm  (25 9/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie (Besançon)
    [Museum inv. no.: D.843.1.8]

Description

A triangle having five jingling rings is played among other Chinese musicians playing instruments. To the right, men are dancing. The setting of the triangle in a Chinese context is rare. Also, the triangle is held and played left-handed.

Iconclass

48C7344(TRIANGLE)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Triangle (with rings)
Sanxian [3436]
Jingle [2873]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 2
Wikimedia Commons

Bibliographic references

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

RIdIM record id

7423

Data provider

Dr. Mark Berry