Relief: Femme endormie et trois putti musiciens

Unknown (German)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
1640-1660
Height:
5.3 cm  (2 1/16 in.)
Width:
11.2 cm  (4 7/16 in.)
Depth:
3.4 cm  (1 5/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
carved ivory
Place of creation:
Ulm (Deutschland)

    Item location

  • Musée du Louvre
    Département des Objets d'art du Moyen Age, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes[Museum inv. no.: CL 20811 ]

Description

A nude woman sleeps next to three putti playing musical instruments. One putto plays a harp. One putto plays a plucked string instrument (cittern?). One putto plays a triangle having eight jingling rings.

Iconclass

48C7344(TRIANGLE)
48C7326(CITTERN)
48C7326
HARP
92D1916
cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Triangle (with rings)
Cittern [3106]
Harp [3285]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
Musée du Louvre

Bibliographic references

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

RIdIM record id

7429

Data provider

Dr. Mark Berry