Het oordeel van Midas

Jordaens, Jacob, the elder (1593-1678) (workshop of)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
17th century
Height:
116.0 cm  (45 11/16 in.)
Width:
154.0 cm  (60 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

Judgement of Midas [Musical contest between Apollo and Pan]

    Item location

  • Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Gent)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1902-D]

Description

Pan playing a conical wind instrument (probably a shawm), Apollo holding a lyre, and a child holding a shawm.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Wind instruments [3730] (probably shawm)
Lyre [3501]
Shawm [4258]
Panpipe [4024]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century. II (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) 78, cat. 338, pl. XVIII.

RIdIM record id

887