Silenus carrying fruits, with a nymph and a faun blowing a horn

Jordaens, Jacob, the elder (1593-1678)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1640

Height:

128.0 cm  (50 3/8 in.)

Width:

114.0 cm  (44 7/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Silenus carrying fruits with a nymph and what is possibly a male faun playing a coiled horn.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Natural horn [4126]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century. II (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) 83, cat. 364, pl. CXXXI.

RIdIM record id

862