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Allegory of Music and Poetry, 1785

  • oil paint, panel
  • 23.5 x 17.9 cm
  • Inv. 1914-IH

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Artist

Nicolaes Muys RKD
Rotterdam 1740 - Rotterdam 1808
painters (artists)AAT

Title Allegory of Music and Poetry
Date 1785
Period 18th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signature and year on the table: N. MUYS f 1785.
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1914-IH
Acquisition credit bequest
Scribe, Fernand
Ghent
1913
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3828/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300055865 symbolism (artistic concept) AAT
300055866 allegory (artistic device) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 22C light Iconclass
22C2 artificial light Iconclass
22C8 shadow Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31D15 adult woman Iconclass
41B31 candle Iconclass
48C24(+32) piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture (+ sculpture) Iconclass
48C7 music Iconclass
48C73 musical instruments; group of musical instruments Iconclass
48C731 string instruments (bowed) Iconclass
48C7311 violin, fiddle Iconclass
48C742 manuscript of musical score Iconclass
48C901 symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ poetry; 'Poesia' (Ripa) Iconclass
School / Style Rococo AAT
Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 101-102)
Voorbeeldige busten : Het borstbeeld in de Nederlanden 1600-1800 (tentoonstelling Antwerpen, KMSKA, 12.09.2008 - 14.12.2008) / Valerie Herremans, Jeffrey Muller, Carolien Van der Star, Frits Scholten. - Gent : Snoeck, 2008 ; Antwerpen : Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 2008
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