Status of 12 December 2002
Muses: [BI London 1740] Bickham, George, Jr. (1710/15?-1758). The Invitation to Mira, from The Musical Entertainer, vol. II. London 1740. p. 5. engraving. One of the Muses plays a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Fraenkel no. 157; Facsimile: New York 1965)
Satyrs and Fauns: [BI London 1740] Bickham, George, Jr. (1710/15?-1758). "The Bacchanalian's Wish," from The Musical Entertainer, vol. II. London 1740. p. 3. engraving. Includes a satyr child sitting on a floating barrel, blowing a ribbed shell horn from which wine (I presume) emerges. A sort of live fountain figure. There is also a little trophy with a trumpet and poorly depicted violin and 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Facsimile: New York 1965)
[Ta art market] British, ca. 1760. Axminster carpet with the arms of the Frankfurt Families Grambs and Neufville. London art market. carpet. Includes a ribbed, curved horn on a shield, with a player of a ribbed, curved horn above. unimp. (Apollo 112 [1980] Sept. ad p. 63)
[Pa location unknown] [British?] ca. 1730. Portrait of a Man with a Hunting (?) Horn. location unknown. Holds a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn with a funnel mouthpiece. (MGG VI, Taf. 32 -- after K. Geiringer. Musical Instruments. London 1943.)
[Zoffany Pa] Zoffany, Johann (1734/35-1810). The Sharp Family Making Music on the Thames at Fulham. London NPG. Includes, among the many musical instruments, an unplayed harpsichord. (Harrison and Rimmer no. 173; M. Praz. Conversation Pieces ... University Park PA 1971. no. 155, p. 193 [color reproduction]; Early Music 30 [2002] February front color [ok color detail]; Musica calendar 1969: 21-September-4 October [color reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 377.Z77.7S)
[Goupy Pr] Goupy (Gouphy), Joseph (1713-1799). "The True Representation and Character"/Caricature of Handel at the Organ. engraving. Among the musical artifacts, a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (G. Kinsky. A History of Music in Pictures. New York 1930. p. 266. As pub. 12 March 1754; Early Music 11 [1983] 320. As engraved after Gouphy, ca. 1730.)
[Goupy Pr] _______. "The Charming Brute"/Caricature of Handel at the Organ. engraving. Among the musical artifacts, a small 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (C. Hogwood. Handel. London 1984. p. 165. As pub. 1754)
[Elmer Pa] Elmer, Stephen (op. from 1764-m.1798). Hunting Still Life. London art market (1926). Includes a looped horn. (Sutton sale, Christie's, 12.II.1926)
[Sc London Westminster Abbey] Roubiliac, Louis François (1702/05-1762). Monument to "George Frederick Handel" (unveiled 10 July 1762). London, Westminster Abbey. sculpture. Includes, among the decoration, a partly visible double bass and a partly visible coiled horn (viewed from the bell). unimp. (The New Grove vol. 8, p. 110)
[BI London 1740] Bickham, George, Jr. (1710/15?-1758). "The Adieu to the Spring Gardens", from The Musical Entertainer, vol. II. London 1740. p. 49. engraving. Includes a trophy with a 1-1/2 coiled horn (miserably depicted) and a trumpet. very unimp. (Facsimile: New York 1965)
[BI ** **] Anon. Title-page of Johann Baptist Krumpholtz (1745-1790), Krumpholtz' Sonatas For the Harp. Platts's Edition. ** ** mezzotint? Includes unplayed harp, violin, flute, and 1-1/2 circle coiled horn with three (?) crooks. (MGG, vol. 7, col. 1841)
[Chippendale In] Chippendale, Thomas (1709/18-1779), attr. A George III marquetry side table. London art market 1969. One panel includes a coiled horn. The other includes a coiled horn, a trumpet and two bassoons. (sold, Sotheby's, 28.VI.1968, lot 161; Burlington 111 [1969] June supp. Notable Works pll. LV and LVI. As ca. 1770. The panel with the coiled horn repr. Connoisseur 171 [1969] 117)
Carnival: [Allan Dr] Allan, David (1744-1796). Opening of the Carnival, Rome, Piazza del Popolo,1775. Coll. H. M. the Queen. drawing. Includes a group of musicians in a decorated wagon playing two violins, oboe and coiled horn (bell up). There is also a fellow on a donkey blowing a curved horn. Engraved by Paul Sandby. (T. C. Gordon. David Allan of Allan ... the Scottish Hogarth. Alva 1951. opp. p. 26; G. Matthiae. Piazza del Popolo. Rome 1946. opp. p. 32 [poor reproduction]; MGG vol. 11, Taf. 42 [ok reproduction])
Concerts: [BI London 1737] Bickham, George, Jr. (1710/15?-1758). Rural Beauty, or Vauxhall Garden, from The Musical Entertainer, vol. I. London 1737. p. 21. engraving. An orchestra concert in a pavilion. There is a coiled horn hung on a pillar. It seems to belong to the trumpet soloist (in other words, he doubles). (The New Grove vol. 2, p. 694 [miserable reproduction]; Facsimile of the 2/1740 edition: New York 1965)
Hunts and Hunters: See also Portraits and Conversation Pieces.
[BI London 1737] Bickham, George, Jr. (1710/15?-1758). "The Going out in the Morning," from The Musical Entertainer,vol. I. London 1737. p. 4. engraving. Includes a mounted hunter playing a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. Nothing great, but central and prominent. (Schwerdt vol. IV, p. 7; Facsimile of the 2/1740 edition: New York 1965)
[BI London 1737] _______. "The Return from the Chace." p. 7. Includes a mounted hunter with a coiled horn (unlikely pose), tooting as they straggle back home. (Schwerdt IV, p. 42; Facsimile of the 2/1740 edition: New York 1965)
[BI London 1737] _______. "The Chace." p. 73. Includes a mounted hunter with a small 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Facsimile of the 2/1740 edition: New York 1965)
[BI London 1737] _______. "The Meeting in the Morning." p. 78. Hunters assembling out in a field, including one hunter on foot blowing a misdepicted coiled horn (the bell goes off in the wrong direction). Good example of a botched horn. Too bad, because the scene has lots of atmosphere. (Facsimile of the 2/1740 edition: New York 1965)
[Sartorius Pa] Sartorius, Francis I (1743-1804). The Kennels (1786). London art market 1922. Figure with a pack of hounds, a small 1-1/2 (?) coiled horn under his arm. (de la Pole sale, Christie's, 24.II.1922)
[Seymour Pa] Seymour, James (1702-1752). John Jolliffe Pursuing the Chase (1736). private collection. Includes a mounted figure with a coiled horn. Very dramatic. (exh Virginia Museum, 1960: Sport and the Horse. no. 9, fig. 9 [fair reproduction])
[Stubbs Pa] Stubbs, George (1724-1806). The Grosvenor Hunt at Eaton. private collection. Two figures have coiled horns (one played, one carried) (rather small details, but note black painted inside of bell). (Burlington 112 [1970] 771 [fair reproduction], notes exh. Thos. Agnew and Sons, London, 1970; Connoisseur 120 [1947] 35 [poor reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 377.St91.7Gr)
Pageants: [Scott Pa] Scott, Samuel (1703-1772), School of. A Water Pageant on the Thames. private collection (1920). In the bow of a covered barge there areplayers of two trumpets and one or two looped horns. A panoramic painting. This barge is in the left foreground. A small detail, but quite clear. (exh. London, Burlington Fine Arts Club] Catalogue of a Collection of Early Drawings and Pictures of London. London 1920. no. 78, pl. XXXIII. Doubtless a procession of the Lord Mayor elect from Three Crane Stairs to Westminster [old style 29 October].)
Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees: [CI London 1763] Anon. Ambassadorial Procession, London 1763. engraving. Includes two mounted players of small, 1-1/2 circle coiled horns. (A. Baines. Brass Instruments ... London 1976. p. 157 [detail])
Views: [Pa Anon.] A View of Windsor Castle with Elegant Company Promenading. London art market (1963). Includes a player of a coiled horn tooting in the stern of a boat. (Connoisseur 153 [1963] June ad p. cii [poor reproduction])
[BI 1763] Parker, Henry. A River Scene with State Barge, from The Compleat Drawing Master (1763). engraving. There is a figure in the stern of the barge blowing a 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn (bell up). (Burlington 108 [1966] 412 [too small])
Concerts with Orchestra: [Dr London BM] Anon., 18th century. Handel (?) and what is presumed to be a semi-public Oratorio Performance. London, British Museum. drawing. The orchestra includes a player of a 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn. (N. Dufourcq. La Musique ... Paris 1965. vol. I, p. 1323; R.Haas. Aufführungspraxis der Musik. Potsdam 1931, R/1949. Taf XI; Kinsky p. 264; Komma p. 158; MGG IV, cols. 1697-98 [poor reproduction]; Musica calendar 1975: 30 November - 13 December [fine reproduction]; Imago musicae 4 [1987] 339 [small, poor reproduction]; The New Grove vol. 6, p. 173, as engraving, with caption comment: "it has been suggested that the figure in the right foreground is Handel")
[Gl Anon.] Anon., ca. 1745. A glass goblet with Silenus on his barrel in a roundel beneath a graded stage with ten standing musicians. London art market (1979). Includes a player of a 1-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn (bell up). (Connoisseur 201 [1979] June ad p. 60)
House Concerts/Chamber Music/Rehearsals: [Sayer Dr] Sayer, James (1748-1823). "A Rehearsal." London BM acc. no. 1920-7-10-3. drawing. Figures play keyboard, 2 violins, cello, flute and 2 coiled horns (bells up). A lady sings. (Imago musicale2 [1985] 58)
[Zoffany Dr] Zoffany, Johann (1734/35-1810). House Concert. private collection. A small orchestra, including a boy playing a harpsichord (along the bentside "AUVI VIDE ET TACE SE VIS VIVERE IN PACE"). The orchestra includes two players of 1-1/2 circle coiled horns. (Early Music 19 [1991] 501 [ok color reproduction] Suggests that the boy may be the young Mozart. Notes exhibit, Salzburg, Schloss Klessheim, 1991: Mozart: Bilder und Klänge)
Operatic/Theatrical Scenes: [Pa Anon.] Anon., 18th century. A Theatrical Scene with Columbine and Harlequin. London art market (1953). The orchestra includes two players of coiled horns. One horn is held bell up, the other rests over the player's shoulder and on the railing of the orchestra pit, pointing directly at the audience. (sale, Christie's, 5.VI.1953, as Patch)
Other: [Dance Dr] Dance, George II (1741-1825). Prize Fight with Royalty and Distinguished Spectators Looking On. London art market (1966). water color. Musicians, above, in a balcony (no doubt part of a larger group) play oboe and a huge, 1-1/2 coiled open-hooped horn (held bell up in an almost gravity-defying manner). (Apollo 83 [1966] June ad p. cxxv)
Musicians (amateur and professional): [BI London ca.1770] Anon. Duetting Hornists, from New Instructions for the French Horn. London, Longman & Lukey, ca.1770. engraving. They play two small, 1-1/2 circle coiled horns, one held with the left hand (right hand on hip), the other with the right. (A. Baines. Brass Instruments ... London 1976. pl. IX/1)
[Po Chelsea art market] British (Chelsea), 18th century. A Pair of Horn Players. London art market (1972). Each has a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn (one held to the right, one held to the left) One player is a Negro. (Burlington 114 [1972] May ad p. viii)
[Mortimer Dr] Mortimer, John Hamilton (1741-1799). A Choral Band. private collection. The accompanying musicians play double bass, flute, oboe, and coiled horn (all the instruments partly visible). (Early Music 12 [1984] 9 [ok reproduction])
[Sandby Pr] Sandby, Paul (1725-1809). A Mountebank Painter (1754). etching. Includes a huckster's assistant blowing a reverse-curve horn. An anti-Hogarth satire. (R. Paulson. Hogarth ... vol. 3. New Brunswick NJ 1993. pl. 30 [small reproduction])
Other: [Pr Anon.] Anon., 18th century. Satire of the Stock Market, from the Groot Tafereel der Dwaasheid. engraving. In the background a man on a goat blows a curved horn. (H. Brugmans. Het Staatkundig en Maatschappelijk Leven. Leiden n.d. [Oud-Nederlandsche Steten (III)] p. 380)
[BI Amsterdam 1751/52] Jan Punt (1711-1779) after Hendrik de Winter (1717-1782)? Title page of Antoine Mahaut, Maendelyks Musikaels Tydverdryf. Amsterdam, A. Olofsen [1751/52]. engraving. The musical border trophies include two 1-1/2 circle coiled horns, one with what seems to be a crook. (Fraenkel no. 158)
[BI Amsterdam 1769] Arnout Lucas Wildeman (fl.1766-m.1787). Title page of Franz Joseph Haydn, Six Quatuor. Amsterdam, Johann Julius Hummel, 1769. engraving. Border decoration includes a rather large 2-1/2 circle coiled horn and a small 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. unimp. (Fraenkel no. 173).
Landscapes: [Henning Dr] Henning, Christian (1741-1822), attr. Landscape with Houses. Hoorn, Westfries Museum. drawing. Includes a cowherd blowing a curved horn. (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 12 [1961] 182)
Street Scenes: [Punt-van Cuyck Pr] Jan Punt (1711-1779) after Pieter van Cuyck (1687-1765). Wind Band (1752). engraving. Consists of players of five oboes, two bassoons and 1-1/2 circle coiled horn (held down with left hand, can't tell where his right hand is). (Early Music 16 [1988] 433)
Balls: [CI Amsterdam 1772] Reinier Vinkeles. "Het Prachtige Bal". Ball in the Stadhuis on the Occasion of the Marriage of Stadhouder Willem V and Princess Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia, Amsterdam, 2 June 1768, from Jan Wagenaar, 't Verheugd Amsterdam ... Amsterdam 1772. pl. after p. 60. etching. The orchestra, divided in two galleries, includes two players of coiled horns (bells up). (Bowles Musical Ensembles, fig. 239 and 239a [detail]; MgB IV/4, p. 173 [not helpful for details])
Cowherds: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Landscapes.
St. Hubert/Eustache: [Verker Pa] Verker, Nicolas van der (18th century). St. Hubert. Lombeek-Notre-Dame, eglise Notre-Dame, s. side altar. St. Hubert has a curved horn hanging from a strap. (Histoire des environs de Bruxelles II. Brussels 1971. p. 154)
[J J II Horemans Pa] Horemans, Jan Josef II (1714-p.1790). Music Party. Antwerp, Rockoxhuis. A lady plays a harpsichord, a man and two women sing, a man plays a cello and another conducts. There is a prominent coiled horn on the floor in the foreground. (Studia organologica. Festschrift John Henry van der Meer. Tutzing 1987. p. 329 [ok reproduction]. As the Dulcken family in 1764?; van Dijck-Koopman 1967. no. 251 [small reproduction]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 242 [small reproduction], as 1764)
[P J Horemans Pa] Horemans, Pieter Jacob (1700-1776). A Court Musician with Musical Instruments (1772). Munich BNM. He holds a trumpet and is surrounded by musical instruments, including two 3-1/2 (?) coiled horns. (Ott. pl. 61 [fair reproduction]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1966. p. 174 [fair reproduction])
[P J Horemans Pa] Horemans, Pieter Jacob (1700-1776). Portrait of a Man with a Wine Glass. Munich AP. Includes musical instruments on a slab: hurdy-gurdy, two violins and coiled horn. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 246 [small reproduction])
[P J Horemans Pa] _______. Portrait of a Court Horn Player. Munich AP. He holds a 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn. Also includes musical instruments on a slab: two violins, theorbo-lute, musette, recorder (inside a closed book) and trumpet. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 246 [small reproduction])
[P J Horemans Pa] _______. Portrait of the Court Bassoonist Felix Rheiner (Reiner) (1732-82). Munich AP (Schleissheim, Schloss). He holds a bassoon. On or against a table there are two violins, a viola, a cello or small double bass and a coiled horn. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 245 [small reproduction]; The New Grove vol. 2, p. 274 has a detail of him with the bassoon [no horn]. Identifies him as Felix Rheiner and dates the painting as 1774.)
[P J Horemans Pa] _______. Portrait of the Court Violinist Johann Georg Holzbogen. Munich AP. He holds his violin. There are several unplayed musical instruments: violin (and case), lute, large theorbo-lute, oboe and coiled horn. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 243 [small reproduction])
[P J Horemans Pa] _______. A Musician Surrounded by Musical Instruments. Munich AP. He has a violin in one hand and a cello under his arm, and is surrounded by musical instruments: two violins, viola, cello, bass viol, viola d'amore, lute, bassoon, oboe d'amore or da caccia, flute, two 3-1/2 circle coiled horns, two trumpets and a pair of timpani. (Ott. pl. 62 [fair reproduction], as 1772; Pincherle p. 132; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1966. p. 175 [fair reproduction])
[P J Horemans Pa] _______. Johanna de Lasence Taking Coffee in the Garden (1767). Nuremberg GNm. Includes a violin, a cello, a recorder and two coiled horns piled on and around a red-upholstered chair. (Musica calendar, 1988: 12-25 June [fine color detail])
[P J Horemans Pa] _______. Conversation Piece (1741). Springfield MA, Museum. One of the sitters has a coiled horn hung across his chest. Another coiled horn is hung on the stump of a tree. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 250 [fair reproduction])
[Beschey Pa] Beschey, Jacob Andries (1710-1786). Game Piece. Munich AP. Includes a 1-1/2 circle coiled/looped horn hanging on a tree. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 259 [small reproduction])
[Govaerts Pa] Govaerts, Jan-Baptist (ca.1701-1746?). Game Piece. Baltimore WAG. Includes a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn hung on a tree. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 261 [small reproduction])
[Vermoelen Pa] Vermoelen, Jacob-Xaver (ca. 1714-1784). Hunting Still Life. private collection. Includes a 3-1/2 circle coiled horn (hanging from a tree) and a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (E. Greindl. Peintures flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle. Brussels 1956. no. 63)
[Wsc Oostende] Anon., third quarter, 18th century. Musical Trophy. Oostende, O. L. Vrouw ter Duinen te Mariakerke, rail of the organ loft. wood. Includes trumpet, horn, and kettledrums. (Kunstpatrimonium van West-Vlaanderen I. Beeld van het Kunstbezit. Tielt 1965. fig. 164 [poor reproduction])
Chamber Music (on terrace, in garden): [P J Horemans Pa] Horemans, Pieter Jacob (1700-1776). Chamber Music and Dancing on a Terrace (1739). private collection. Figures play two violins, bass viol (a woman), recorder (?), bassoon and a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 250 [fair reproduction])
Dances and Dancers: [Bonnecroy Pa] Bonnecroy, Philipp (1720-p.1771), attr. Comedians Dancing on a Terrace. private collection. Musicians in a gallery play violin, coiled horn, and one more instrument. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 262 [small reproduction], notes sold Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 9.IX.1943, no. 898, as by J. B. Lambrechts. Similar painting sold Christies, London, 29.XI.1935, no. 13)
[Bonnecroy Pa] _______, attr. Comedians and other Figures on a Terrace. location unknown. Musicians in a gallery play violin, coiled horn, and perhaps one more instrument. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967. p. 262 [small reproduction]. Notes sold at the Merzbacher sale, Helbing, Munich, 12.X.1926, as by J. B. Lambrechts)
Hunts and Hunters: [Po (Tournai) Brussels] Flemish (Tournai), 18th century. A Boy with a Dog. Brussels MR. porcelain figure group. He has a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn across his chest. (1959 catalog: Porcelaines de Tournai. ed. A. M. Marien-Dugardin. Inv. V.880, fig. 43)
[Ta art maket] Flemish (Lille, atelier of the widow G. Werniers), p. 1738-1778. Hunt. Paris art market (1982). tapestry. Includes a prominent figure with a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. unimp. (Die Weltkunst 52 [1982] 2245 [ok color reproduction])
[J J II Horemans Pa] Horemans, Jan Joseph the Younger (1714-p.1790). Cupids Resting after Hunting. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. There is a small 2-1/2 circle coiled horn (no mouthpiece) among the hunting props. (Vis. Coll. 374.1.H784.4C)
Village/Rustic Scenes: [Ta Stuttgart] Flemish (Brussels), ca. 1730. The Prize Ox, from the Fins Teniers series. Stuttgart WLM? tapestry. Includes a figure blowing a cow horn. (Göbel I/2, no. 312)
Banquets: [J J II Horemans Pa] Horemans, Jan Joseph the Younger (1714-p.1790). Wedding Banquet. private collection. Accompanied by players of a violin, double bass, oboe, two coiled horns (bells in opposite directions) and perhaps one more. (Country Life 21.II.1963 [poor reproduction])
Parties/Music Parties: See also Portraits and Conversation Pieces.
[Bonnecroy Pa] Bonnecroy, Philipp (1720-p.1771). Party. London art market (1935). There is a small orchestra including two players of coiled horns. Amusing. (Arundell sale [Citroen Coll.] Christie's 29.XI.1935)
Putti: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Hunts and Hunters.
Other: [Ta Florence] French (Gobelins, Atelier M. Audran, cartoon by Jean-François de Troy), 1747-1750. The Story of Esther: The Triumph of Mordecai. Florence Uffizi?. tapestry. Includes a figure with a long, curved horn. (Göbel II/2, no. 163 [poor reproduction], with location R. Galleria degli Arazzi)
Diana: [Loo Fr] Loo, Charles André van (Carle van Loo) (1705-1765). Diana Reposing. Stupinigi, Palazzina di Caccia. ceiling fresco. One of her nymphs has a 2-1/2 (?) circle open- hooped horn around her body, and there are two more horns in the foreground (one with a very shallow cup mouthpiece). (L. Mallè. Le arte figurative in Piemonte dalle origini al periodo romantico. Turin n.d. fig. 273 [detail])
Tritons: [Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770). Le lever du Soleil/The Rising of the Sun. London, The Wallace Collection. Includes a Triton in the right foreground, blowing a shell horn. (exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986: François Boucher. p. 329 [fair reproduction, not exhibited]; Art Bulletin 72 [1990] 78)
[Boucher Pa] _______. The Birth of Venus. Stockholm NM. Includes a Triton blowing a shell horn. (exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986: François Boucher. p. 75 [small reproduction, not exhibited]. Also reproduces, p. 54, Noël-Nicolas Coypel's (1690-1734?) Rape of Europa [Philadelphia Museum of Art], with a similar Triton.)
Other: [Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770). Aurora and Cephalus (1733). Nancy MBA. There is a shallow curved horn among the hunting props. (Burlington 124 [1982] 443; Burlington 129 [1987] 200)
[David Pa] David, Jacques Louis (1748-1825). The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis. Los Angeles Getty. Telemachus, a hunter, has a partly visible curved horn hanging from a strap. (Burlington 129 [1987] January ad p. i [fine color reproducton]; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 118 [1991] 28; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 111 [March 1988] La chronique des arts no. 1430, p. 37 [small reproduction])
[Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770). Sylvia Freed by Amyntas, from Torquato Tasso Aminta (1581). Amyntas, a shepherd, has a small, curved horn hanging at his hip from a chain. A rare iconography. (exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986: François Boucher. no. 62, p. 264).
[David Dr] David, Jacques Louis (1748-1825). Arrivée de Napoléon à l'Hôtel-de-Ville pendant des Fêtes de Sacre/The Arrival of Napoleon and Josephine at the Hôtel-de-Ville (1805). Paris Louvre. drawing. Includes a band of brass and percussion instruments, including coiled horns. (exh RAA 1932: French Art, 1200-1900. no. 818, pl. 181; exh Paris, Palais National des Arts, 1937: Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français. pl. XCVI; The New Grove, vol. 3, p. 403 [detail])
Elements (Air): See also Decorative Elements.
Elements (Water): [Boucher Pr] Boucher, François (1703-1770) (after). L'Eau, from a Four Elements series. engraving. Three putti among dolphins. One of the putti blows a shell horn. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 119 [1992] 100 [small reproduction])
Geographical: See also Scenes of Everyday Life - Outdoor, Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees.
Love and Sex: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Fountain Figures.
Music/Poetry/Liberal Arts: [Marillier Dr] Marillier, Pierre Clement (1740-1808). Allegory of Music. private collection. drawing. Among the objects, a cello, a harp, a plucked string, a bagpipe, a shawm, and a coiled horn. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 375[d?].M338.90[a])
Planets: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Pageants.
Times of Day/Days of Week: [Dr Anon.] Anon., 18th century. "Le Matin"/Morning. engraving. Includes a young man heralding the dawn by blowing his 1-1/2 circle coiled horn and gesturing toward his lady friend. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 132)
Triumph/Victory: See also Old Testament, Other.
Other: [Loo Pa] Loo, Charles André van (Carle van Loo) (1705-1765). Allegory of Comedy (Comédie). St. Petersburg, Hermitage. Includes an putto with a small, 2-1/2 circle coiled horn (conical mouthpiece). There is also an unplayed bagpipe. oval version, d'Hautpoul sale, Drouot, Paris, 29.VI.105.
[Carmontelle Dr] Carmontelle, Louis Carrogis de (1717-1806). Pierre Vachon (violin), Jean Pierre Duport (cello), Vernier (oboe) and Jean Joseph Rodolphe (horn) and a Singer. Chantilly, Musée Condé. pastel. Rodolphe has his hand in the bell. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, pl. VII [color reproduction]. Identifies the oboist as Prover.; MGG vol. 13, Taf. 62; The New Grove vol. 7, p. 706 [poor reproduction]; Early Music 12 [1992] 44 [poor reproduction]; Musica calendar 1967: 26 November - 9 December [fine color reproduction])
[Gautier Dagoty Pa] Gautier Dagoty (d'Agoty), Fabien (1747-p.1781). Portrait of a youth with a coiled horn. Paris art market (1937). He has a rather small 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn (sort of a "youth model") with a rather large, funnel-shaped mouthpiece. (sale, Charpentier, Paris, 14.VI.1937 [cat. illus. ok])
[Loo Pa] Loo, Louis Michel van (1707-1771). Portrait of Philippe V, King of Spain, with his Children and Grandchildren. Madrid, Prado. In the background musicians in a balcony play two violins, oboe, coiled horn (bell up) and more (?). (F. Sopeña Ibañez and A. Gallego Gallego. La Musica en el Museo del Prado. Madrid 1972. p. 241 [fine color detail]; Revue de l'Art 29 (1925) Sept-Oct [fair reproduction])
[Pa private collection] Anon., ca. 1740. Trompe l'oeil Still Life with Musical Instruments. private collection. Includes a violin, cello, bassoon, musette, trumpet and 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn. (A. P. de Mirimonde. L'iconographie musicale sous les rois Bourbons ... Paris 1975-77. vol. 2, fig. 10. Notes previous attribution to Chardin.)
[marquetry Paris MAD] Anon., 18th century. Still Life of Music and Musical Instruments. Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs. marquetry panel on a secretary/desk. Includes a partly visible small 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. unimp. (A. P. de Mirimonde. L'iconographie musicale sous les rois Bourbons ... Paris 1975-77. vol. 2, fig. 11; Pincherle p. 133)
[Roland de la Porte Pa] Roland de la Porte, Henri-Horace (1725-1793). Still Life with Musical Instruments. Cambrai, Musée (depot). Includes a large cello, violin, flute, bassoon, oboe and 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn. (N. Dufourcq. La Musique ... Paris 1965. vol. I, p. 215 [poor reproduction]; A. P. de Mirimonde. L'iconographie musicale sous les rois Bourbons ... Paris 1975-77. vol. 2, fig. 9; Revue du Louvre 15 [1965] 117 [poor reproduction])
[Roland de la Porte Pa] _______, attr. Still Life with Musical Instruments. private collection. Includes a quinton, lute, musette, oboe (?), flute (??) and a partly visible coiled horn (bell only). very unimp. A lousy picture with instruments crudely drawn. (exh Bergamo, Galleria Lorenzelli, 1971: La natura in posa. pl. 61 [fine color reproduction]) A copy, in reverse, of the Vallayer-Coster in the Louvre (below).
[Vallayer-Coster Pa] Vallayer-Coster, Anne (1744-1818). Still Life with Musical Instruments. Paris Louvre. Includes a quinton, lute, flute, musette, oboe (?) and partly visible coiled horn (bell only). unimp. (Musée du Louvre. Catalogue illustré des peintures. Ecole française, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Ed. P. Rosenberg et al. Paris 1974. no. 829; Revue du Louvre 15 [1965] 119)
[Vallayer-Coster Pa] _______. Still Life of Musical Instruments. London art market (1989). Includes a guitar, bassoon, flute (distal end only, with key), oboe (reed visible), small 3-1/2 (4-1/2?) circle coiled horn, kettledrum and tambourine (JJ/BB). (Burlington 129 [1986] August ad p. x [small reproduction]; Die Weltkunst 59 [1989] 1602)
See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Hunts and Hunters.
[BI Paris 1748] Michel (?) Aubert (1700-1757) after Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743). Title page of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, Pieces de clavecin avec voix ou violon. Paris 1748. Includes several decorative objects which resemble variously coiled horns. very unimp. (Fraenkel no. 121; The New Grovevol. 8, p. 321 [fair reproduction])
[Po New York Met] Anon. (Sèvres), 1760. Trophy. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Wrightsman Collection). porcelain breakfast tray. Includes a trophy of flowers and a trumpet, coiled horn and music book. Unimportant, but very pretty. Just looking at it suggests a lovely breakfast. (C. C. Dauterman. The Wrightsman Collection, IV: Porcelain. New York 1970. no. 99, p. 242 [fair reproduction, faint])
[marquetry art market] Anon., ca. 1760-65. Trophy. Munich art market (1981). marquetry on a secretary (desk). Includes a violin, several woodwinds, a trumpet, a string drum, a tiny kettledrum and a small coiled horn. unimp. (Die Weltkunst 51 [1981] 1090 [color reproduction, not good for details])
[Choffard Pr] Choffard, Pierre Philippe (1736-1809). Hunting Vignette (1769). engraving. The objects in the border include a partly visible 1-1/2 circle coiled horn (not well depicted). (Schwerdt III, p. not recorded)
[Durand Sc] Durand, Antoine-Sébastien (doc.1740-1765). Terrine with hunting motifs (1749/50). Copenhagen, Royal Sliver Collection. silver. Includes a 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn. (Die Weltkunst 59 [1989] 238)
[Huet Dr] Huet, Christophe (doc.1735-m.1759). Air as one of the Four Elements, from a textile design. Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs. drawing. Includes a trophy of musical instruments: bagpipe, bassoon, oboe and 1-1/2 circle coiled horn (and mandolin!). (Gazette des Beaux-Arts124 [1994] 237, with a reproduction of a textile of Jouy d'Oberkampf [Mulhouse, Musée de l'Impression sur Etoffes])
[Huet Pr] _______. Hunting Trophy, from Trofées de chasse. engraving. Includes a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn with a rather large mouthpiece with a wide, flat rim. (Connoisseur 155 [1964] 19; Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 119. From A new book of hunting trophis [sic]. London 1755)
[Guérin-Melling Pr] Christophe Guérin (1758-1813) after Joseph Melling (1724 - ?). Business card of an instrument maker. engraving. Among the instruments in the border are two 2-1/2 circle coiled horns tied with bows and affixed to columns. unimp. (Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 26; Mirimonde Iconographie musicale. vol. 2, fig. 13)
[Métivier Sc] Métivier, Joseph (doc.1767-1786), after designs by Charles Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806). Panel of the circular salon of the hôtel de Montmorency. Boston MFA. low relief sculpture. Trophies include a 3-1/2 circle coiled horn and a one-keyed flute. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 75 [1970] 84)
[Perache Me] Perache (Paris, ca. 1740). Pendule de chasse de Chantilly. Zurich art market (1981). bracket clock. It has an ormolu (?) figure of a hunter on top, blowing his coiled horn (bell up). Unimportant except as an example of the fashion of the hunting motif. (Burlington 123 [1981] April ad p. [xix])
Concerts: [CI Paris 1739] Anon. Concert in a pavilion on two barges anchored in the Seine during wedding festivities hosted by the city of Paris for Princess Louise-Elisabeth of France and Infante Felipe of Spain, 30 August 1739, from Description des fêtes donnés par la ville de Paris. Paris 1740. etching. The orchestra includes a player of a coiled horn. (Bowles Musical Ensembles. fig. 219, 219a [detail])
Garden Parties: See also Hunts (Ollivier).
Hunts and Hunters: See also Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures, Other; Decorative Elements.
[BI Paris 1742] Boitard, Louis Peter (i.e. Louis Philippe) (ca.1733-ca.1767). Title-page of Divers sujets de chasses. Paris, Odieuvre, 1742. engraving. Includes a seated hunter with a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn across his chest. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 110 [1987] 166 [ok reproduction], as Louis Peter Boitard after Routar.)
[BI Paris ca.1778] Oger, Madame. Title-page of Jacques, Marquis de Dampierre, Recueil de fanfares pour la chasse ... Paris, Le Clerc [ca. 1740-50] [The New Grove says ca. 1778]. engraving. Includes a hunting party with a mounted figure playing a fairly large 1-1/2 circle coiled horn, bending low along the neck of his horse, bravely blowing away. Another, coiled horn in hand, is about to fall off his horse (or is leaning beside it so as not to be seen). In the border there are two unplayed 2-1/2 circle coiled horns. (Schwerdt I, pl. 54)
[Min private collection] Anon., 18th century. Mounted figure playing a coiled horn. private collection. ivory miniature mounted as a button. Hunter. He plays a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. Nice. (Vis. Coll. 375.F918.90[l])
NOTE: There were two sets of the Chasses Royales de Louis XV, woven at the same time, one in Compiègne, the other in Florence. This is one of the great series of hunting tapestries.
[Ta (Gobelins) Florence Pitti] French (Gobelins, Atelier M. Audran) 1742-45 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": Rendez- vous au carrefour du Puits du Roi, Forêt de Compiègne. Florence, Palazzo Pitti. tapestry. The King has left his coach and prepares to mount his horse, as the hunting party meets in the woods of Compiègne, at the intersection of the Puits du Roi. The hunt master is the count of Toulouse. Three prominent foreground figures have 1-1/2 circle open-hooped coiled horns around the chest or over the shoulder (as do several background figures). (Göbel II/2, no. 162 [poor reproduction]; Opperman 1983, p. 54 [small, useless reproduction]; Burlington 112 [1970] 220 [poor reproduction]) Engr. J. Chauvet. (Fenaille vol. 3, opp. p. 348 [fine reproduction]) Sketch (1733) for the cartoon: Paris, Musée Nissim de Camondo. (Opperman 1977, cat. P156, p. 1073, fig. 201 [useless reproduction]; sale Paris, Drouot, 15.V.1911, no. 18 [with reproduction]) Cartoon: Fontainebleau, Château. The first cartoon (1735). (Opperman 1977 cat. P157 [not illustrated)
[Ta (Gobelins) Compiègne] French, (Gobelins, atelier of Monmerqué) 1736-1738 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]) The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": Rendez-vous au carrefour du Puits du Roi, Forêt de Compiègne. Paris, Mobilier National, on exhibit at Compiègne, Musée National du Château de Compiègne. tapestry. See previous entry.
[Ta (Gobelins) Florence Pitti] French (Gobelins, Atelier M. Audran) 1736-1738 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": La Mort du cerf aux etangs de Saint-Jean-aux-Bois, Forêt de Compiègne. Florence, Palazzo Pitti. tapestry. Includes about six figures with open-hooped, 1-1/2 circle coiled horns. (Opperman 1983, p. 55) Engr. J. Chauvet. (Fenaille vol. 3, opp. p. 354 [small reproduction]) Study for the cartoon: Paris, Bibliothèque de l'École des Beaux-Arts. drawing. (Opperman 1977, cat. D589. p. 1076, fig. 203 [useless reproduction]; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 73 [1969] 113) ** for good reproduction try Lavallée. Dessins français du XVIIIe siècle. no. 11. Sketch (1733) for the cartoon: Paris, Musée Nissim de Camondo. (Opperman 1977, cat. P158 [not illustrated]) Cartoon: Fontainebleau, Château. The second cartoon (1736). (Opperman 1977 cat. P159 [not illustrated)
[Ta (Gobelins) Compiègne] French, (Gobelins, atelier of Monmerqué) 1743-1745 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": La Mort du cerf aux etangs de Saint-Jean-aux-Bois, Forêt de Compiègne. Paris, Mobilier National, on exhibit at Compiègne, Musée National du Château de Compiègne. tapestry. See previous entry. (Opperman 1983, p. 55 [small, useless reproduction]; L'art au XVIIIème siècle en France. Epoques régence - Louis XV, 1715-1760. Paris 1951.no. 216, p. 117; Chefs d'oeuvre de l'art français ... Paris 1937. [pref. G. Huisman] vol. II, no. 122; M. Jarry. World Tapestry. New York 1969. p. 231; exh Paris, Palais National des Arts, 1937: Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français. pl. CLXII)
[Ta (Gobelins) Florence Pitti] French (Gobelins, Atelier M. Audran) 1737-1742 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": Chasse au cerf dans l'Oise à la vue de Compiègne, du coté de Royallieu. Florence, Palazzo Pitti. tapestry. In the foreground there are two mounted huntsmen playing open-hooped, 1-1/2 circle coiled horns and a huntsman on foot with one over his shoulder. Another huntsman, in a boat, plays one. There are perhaps more. (Opperman 1983. p. 56 [small, not very helpful reproduction]) Engr. J. Chauvet. (Fenaille vol. 3, opp. p. 358 [small reproduction]) Sketch (1733?) for the cartoon: Paris, Musée Nissim de Camondo. (Opperman 1977, cat. P160 [not illustrated]; sale, Paris, Drouot, 15.V.1911, no. 20 [reproduced]) Cartoon: Fontainebleau, Château. The third cartoon (1736-37), presented to the King in 1737. (Opperman 1977 cat. P161 [not illustrated). A related drawing, location unknown. (Opperman 1977, cat D581, p. 1073, fig. 202 [small, unhelpful reproduction])
[Ta (Gobelins) Compiègne] French, (Gobelins, atelier of Monmerqué) 1742-1747 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": Chasse au cerf dans l'Oise à la vue de Compiègne, du coté de Royallieu. Paris, Mobilier National, on exhibit at Compiègne, Musée National du Château de Compiègne. tapestry. See previous entry.
[Ta (Gobelins) Florence Pitti] French (Gobelins, Atelier M. Audran) 1745-1747 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": Cerf aux abois dans les rochers de Franchard, Forêt de Fontainebleau. Florence, Palazzo Pitti. tapestry. In the foreground at least two mounted huntsmen play open-hooped, 1-1/2 circle coiled horns. Three others have them over their shoulders. (Opperman 1977, p. 1075, fig. 205 [tiny reproduction]; Opperman 1983, p. 57 [small reproduction, not very helpful]) Engr. J. Chauvet. (Fenaille vol. 3, opp. p. 354 [small reproduction]) Sketch (1737) for the cartoon: location unknown. (Opperman 1977, cat. P162 [not illustrated]; sale of F. Doistau, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 9-11.VI 1909, no. 67 [reproduced]) Cartoon: Fontainebleau, Château. The fourth cartoon (1738). (Opperman 1977 cat. P163 [not illustrated])
[Ta (Gobelins) Compiègne] French, (Gobelins, atelier of Monmerqué) 1739-1745 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": Cerf aux abois dans les rochers de Franchard, Forêt de Fontainebleau. Paris, Mobilier National, on exhibit at Compiègne, Musée National du Château de Compiègne. tapestry. See previous entry.
[Ta (Gobelins) Florence Pitti] French (Gobelins, Atelier M. Audran) 1741-1742 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": On découple la vieille meute au Carrefour de la Petite Patte d'Oie, Forêt de Compiègne ("Le Relai"). Florence, Palazzo Pitti. tapestry. Includes two foreground figures, one mounted and playing a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn, one on foot with one across his chest. At least one mounted figure in the background also has one. There is a stone bridge in the center of the composition. (Opperman 1983, p. 58 [small reproduction]; There is a fine detail of the foreground group of either this or the Compiègne tapestry in G. Wingfield Digby and W. Hefford. The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries. London 1971. p. 71) Engr. J. Chauvet. (Fenaille vol. 3, opp. p. 350 [small reproduction], as Le relais.) Sketch(1739) for the cartoon: Paris, Musée Nissim de Camondo. (Opperman 1977, cat. P166 [not illustrated]; sale of Madame Civialle, Paris, Drouot, 15.V.1911, no. 22 [reproduced]) Cartoon: Fontainebleau, Château. The sixth cartoon (1741). (Opperman 1977 cat. P167 [not illustrated]; H. Fitzpatrick. The Horn and Horn-Playing, and the Austro-Bohemian Tradition from 1680-830. London, New York, 1970. pl. Ia [detail of the fourground group]; The New Grove vol. 8, p. 704 [detail])
[Ta (Gobelins) Compiègne] French, (Gobelins, atelier of Monmerqué) 1744-1746 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": On découple la vieille meute au Carrefour de la Petite Patte d'Oie, Forêt de Compiègne ("Le Relai"). Paris, Mobilier National, on exhibit at Compiègne, Musée National du Château de Compiègne. tapestry. See previous entry. (Opperman 1977, p. 1077, fig. 209 [minuscule reproduction])
[Ta (Gobelins) Florence Pitti] French (Gobelins, Atelier M. Audran) 1743-1745 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": Meute de chiens courants qui vont au rendez-vous. Florence, Palazzo Pitti. tapestry. Includes three figures with 1-1/2 circle open hooped horns, one mounted with his horn across his chest, one mounted and playing his horn, one on foot and playing his horn. They are beside a huge pack of dogs. (Opperman 1977, p. 1078, fig. 211 [small, useless reproduction]; Opperman 1983, p. 58 [small reproduction]) Engr. J. Chauvet. (Fenaille vol. 3, opp. p. 350 [small reproduction]) Sketch(1741) for the cartoon: Paris, Musée Nissim de Camondo. (Opperman 1977, cat. P168 [not illustrated]; Vis. Coll. 375.Ou28.9[c]1) Cartoon: Fontainebleau, Château. The seventh cartoon (1743). (Opperman 1977 cat. P169 [not illustrated]) Repetition: location unknown. (Opperman 1977 cat. D586, p. 1078, fig. 212 [small, unhelpful reproduction])
[Ta (Gobelins) Compiègne] French, (Gobelins, atelier of Monmerqué) 1745-1748 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": Meute de chiens courants qui vont au rendez-vous. Paris, Mobilier National, on exhibit at Compiègne, Musée National du Château de Compiègne. tapestry. See previous entry. (L'art au XVIIIème siècle en France. Epoques régence - Louis XV, 1715-1760. Paris 1951. no. 215, p. 117; Connoisseur 119 [1947] 12 [useless reproduction])
[Ta (Gobelins) Florence Pitti] French (Gobelins, Atelier M. Audran) 1749-1753 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": La Curée du cerf dans la forêt de Saint-Germain à la vue de l'abbaye de Poissy. Florence, Palazzo Pitti. tapestry. Two huntsmen with open-hooped 1-1/2 circle coiled horns, one mounted and playing, one on foot with the horn over his shoulder. (Opperman 1977, p. 1079, fig. 213 [minuscule, useless reproduction]; Opperman 1983, p. 59) Engr. J. Chauvet. (Fenaille vol. 3, opp. p. 358 [small reproduction]) Sketch for the cartoon: Paris, Musée Nissim de Camondo. (Opperman 1977, cat. P170 [not illustrated]) Cartoon: Paris, Musée du Louvre. The eighth cartoon (1744). (Opperman 1977 cat. P171 [not illustrated])
[Ta (Gobelins) Compiègne] French, (Gobelins, begun in atelier of Monmerqué and finished in atelier of Cozette) 1745-1750 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": La Curée du cerf dans la forêt de Saint-Germain à la vue de l'abbaye de Poissy. Paris, Mobilier National, on exhibit at Compiègne, Musée National du Château de Compiègne. tapestry. See previous entry.
[Ta (Gobelins) Florence Pitti] French (Gobelins, Atelier M Audran) 1747-1750 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": Le Forhu à la fin de la curée. Florence, Palazzo Pitti. tapestry. Rewarding the dogs. Includes five prominent foreground figures, three mounted and two on foot, blowing 1-1/2 circle open hooped horns. (Opperman 1983. p. 58 [small reproduction]) Engr. J. Chauvet. (Fenaille vol. 3, opp. p. 352 [fine reproduction]) Sketch (1745) for the cartoon: Paris, Musée Nissim de Camondo. (Opperman 1977, cat. P172 , p. 1077, fig. 201 [small, useless reproduction]) Cartoon: Fontainebleau, Château. The ninth and last cartoon (1746). (Opperman 1977 cat. P173 [not illustrated]; H. Fitzpatrick. The Horn and Horn-Playing, and the Austro-Bohemian Tradition from 1680-830. London, New York, 1970. pl. Ib [detail of the two on foot])
[Ta (Gobelins) Compiègne] French, (Gobelins, atelier of Monmerqué) 1746-1747 (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry [1686-1755]). The "Chasses Royales de Louis XV": Le Forhu à la fin de la curée. Paris, Mobilier National, on exhibit at Compiègne, Musée National du Château de Compiègne. tapestry. See previous entry.
[Ta (Aubusson] art market] French (Aubusson) (after David Teniers), 18th century. Dejeuner des chasseurs. Nizza art market (1982). tapestry. A figure at left blows a 3-1/2 circle tightly coiled horn. (sale, Galerie Robiony, Nizza, 26.V.1982; Die Weltkunst 52 [1982] 1332 [small reproduction])
[Benazech-Ingouf Pr] Pierre Charles Ingouf (1746-1800) or François Robert Ingouf (1747-1812) after Charles Pierre Benazech (ca.1767-1794). The Poacher and his Family (1778). engraving. A figure has a coiled horn. (M. von Boehn. Rokoko Frankreich im XVIII Jahrhundert. Berlin 1919. p. 267)
[Berteaux Pa] Bertaux, Jacques (ca. 1745-1818). The Duke of Orleans and Friends Hunting in the Ile de France (1778). London Art market (1985). Includes at least two figures with coiled horns around their chests (surrounded by a pack of dogs). unimp. (Burlington 127 [1985] June ad p. liii [small color reproduction])
[L N van Blarenberghe Min] Blarenberghe, Louis van (1734-1812) [i.e. Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe (1716/19-1794)?]. Repos de chasse/Rest during the Hunt (1756). Paris art market (1909). gouache miniature. Includes prominent figures with coiled horns. (sale, Drouot, Paris, 23-24.IV.1909 [cat. illus. poor])
[L N van Blarenberghe Min] _______. Departure for the Hunt. Paris art market (1912). gouache miniature. Includes fairly prominent figures with coiled horns. (sale, Drouot, Paris, 31.I.1912 [cat. illus. poor])
[L N van Blarenberghe Min] Blarenberghe, Louis-Nicolas van (1716/19-1794). Hunters in a wood. London art market (1964). gouache miniature. Includes two (?) mounted figures with coiled horns. (sold, Sotheby's, 11.III.1964, lot no. 236)
[Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770), attr. Lepoard Hunt (1736). private collection. oil sketch. Includes two (?) mounted figures blowing slender, almost circular (?), horns (partly visible). (Burlington 138 [1996] 48. Notes exh Amiens, Musée de Picardie, 1995-96: Les Chasses exotiques de Louis XV)
[Cochin Dr] Cochin, Charles-Nicolas (le jeune) (1715-1790). Study for a book illustration. Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, HdZ 4421. drawing. Includes a hunter blowing a horn while placing a laurel wreath on a boar's head on a platter. (Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Die französischen Zeichnungen ... Ed. E. Berckenhagen. Berlin 1970. p. 267)
[Delarue Pr] Delarue, Philibert Benoît de (1718-1780). Horses at a fountain, title etching of Divers sujets militaires. etching. Includes a mounted huntsman blowing a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 90 [1977] 117 [ok reproduction])
[Lepaon Pa] Lepaon, Jean-Baptiste (called Louis) (ca. 1736/38-1785). Grand Duke Paul Hunting in the Park of Chantilly. Chantilly, Musée Condé. At least one figure in a rowboat toots away on a coiled horn, as does at least one figure on shore (another has a horn around his chest). Amusing. (Ernest Comte de Ganay. Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle. Paris 1925. pl. II [ok reproduction, the horn players are tiny details])
[C A van Loo Pa] Loo, Charles André van (Carle van Loo) (1705-1765). Bear Hunt. Amiens, Musée de Picardie. Includes a huntsman holding a curved horn. unimp. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 119 [1992] 179 [small reproduction])
[C A van Loo Pa] _______. Hunters' Picnic. Copenhagen art market (1937). Includes a figure with a botched coiled horn (poorly restored, perhaps). unimp. (H. Rasch Coll. Stockholm 1921 [cat. illus. fair]; Weltrang sale, Bukowski, Copenhagen, 21-23.IV.1937 [cat. illus. poor]) (Witt)
[C A van Loo Pa] _______. Hunters' Picnic. Coll. David-Weill, Paris (1928). In the background two mounted figures blow coiled horns. Not very clear but perhaps an illustration of a hunting duet. (1928 catalog [fair reproduction])
[C A van Loo Pa] _______. Hunters' Picnic. private collection. Two 1-1/2 circle open- hooped horns hang on a tree. (Coll. K. and D. Wing, Rye, Sussex, cat. no. 2G) Copy, in the manner of: sale, Petit, Paris, 19-20.VI.1913 [cat. illus. fair])
[J M Moreau Dr] Moreau, Jean Michel (Moreau le Jeune) (1741-1814). Hunt. Paris art market (1928). Includes a figure on foot, blowing a coiled horn. (Geismar sale, Drouot, Paris, 15.XI.1928 [cat. illus. ok])
[Ollivier Pa] Ollivier, Michel Barthélemy (1712-1784). Fete Given by the Prince de Conti to the Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Woods of Cassan near L'Isle-Adam, 1776. Versailles, Palais. Includes several figures with coiled horns. unimp. (exh Chicago, Art Institute, etc., 1962-63: Treasures of Versailles. no. 77; Vis. Coll. 375.Ol48.4c[a])
[Ollivier Pa] _______. A Stag Hunt before the Château de L'Isle-Adam. Versailles, Palais. Lots of coiled horns, played, carried and on the ground. There are better illustrations. (Vis. Coll. 375.Ol.48.90[a])
[J Rigaud Pr] Rigaud, Jean (1700-1754). "Veüe generale de fontainebleau prise du haut de la montagne oposée du Cote du Parterre." aquatint engraving. Includes a dog handler in the center foreground with a coiled horn across his chest. (Schwerdt IV. pl. 102 [ok color reproduction])
[Wille Pa] Wille, Pierre Alexandre (1748-1821), attr. The Hunter's Return. Paris art market (1939). He has his coiled horn across his chest. (sale, Drouot, Paris, 23-24.II.1939 [cat. illus. ok])
Idylls: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Fountain Figures.
Pastorales: See Allegory, Times of Day/Days of Week.
[Ta New York Met] French (Beauvais, Atelier André-Charlemagne Charron), 1767-69. Le repas, from Les jeux russiens series. New York, Met MA. tapestry. On the ground there are a very un-Russian oboe and two 2-1/2 circle coiled horns. (Apollo 114 [1981] 50)
Pageants: See also Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees.
[CI Paris 1747] Pageant wagon of Mars in the Place Louis le Grand during festivities celebrating the Dauphin's second marriage, to Maria Josepha of Saxony, 13 February, 1747, from Fête publique donné par la Ville de Paris ... Paris 1747. pl. 1. engraving. Includes an orchestra with three players of 1-1/2 circle open-hooped horns. (Bowles Musical Ensembles, fig. 231)
Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees: [Barbault Pa] Barbault, Jean (1705-1766). La mascarade des quatre parties du monde/Masquerade of the Four Parts of the Earth. Besançon MBA. A parade, including figures playing at least four straight trumpets, two coiled horns (bells up, as Turks?) and kettledrums. Good atmosphere, especially for the horns. (Arte illustrata 5 [1972] 426 [detail]. Project of a mascarade to be offered by the students of the Accademia in honor of the Marchese de Vandières, Carnival, Rome [?] 1751. The project was never realized.)
Reviews (Military): [Moreau-Malbeste Pr] Georges Malbeste (1754-1843) after Jean Michel Moreau (Moreau le Jeune) (1741-1814). "Revue de la plaine des Sablons" (1769, engraved 1787). engraving. The accompanying military band includes fifes, drums and coiled horns. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 89 [1977], 12 [small reproduction], January front cover [large detail])
Street Scenes: [Lavrience Pa] Lavrience, Nicolas (1737-1807). The Wedding Coach. private collection. Serenaded by players of violin, oboe, bassoon and coiled horn (hand not in the bell, but the bell under his arm). (Vis. Coll. 378.L396.90[i])
Views: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Hunts and Hunters.
[Houel Pa] Houel, Jean Pierre Louis Laurent (1735-1813). An Archway at the Villa Maecenas, Tivoli (1772). London art market (1959). gouache. Includes a figure tooting away on his coiled horn for no apparent reason. Rare. Maybe he's trying to find his dogs. (Burlington 101 [1959] September-October ad p. xxi)
[Robert Pa] Robert, Hubert (1733-1808). Dance and Serenade in a Park. Amiens, Musée de Picardie. Musicians under a ruined arch include a player of a coiled horn (bell up). Sketchy. Horns bell up are nice because they stand out and you can tell they are there, unlike, say, oboes. (N. Dufourcq. La Musique ... Paris 1965. vol. II, p. 48 [detail?]; exh Vienna, Oberes Belvedere, 1966: Kunst und Geist Frankreichs im 18. Jahrhundert. cat. no. 62, pl. 46)
[Vernet Pa] Vernet, Claude Joseph (1714-1789). View of Sorrento (The Italian Gondola). St. Petersburg, Hermitage. Including two (?) figures playing coiled horns in the bow of a boat approaching from the distance. (The Hermitage: Catalogue of Western European Painting. Leningrad 1957. vol. II, no. 265 [useless reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 375.V594.90[c])
[Vernet Pa] _______. View of Rome, with the Castel Sant'Angelo. London NG. With a water joust on the Tiber. Includes a little military band with two oboes, two trumpets and two coiled horns tooting away on a quay. (1957 catalog: French Schools. Ed. M. Davies. no. 236, p. 217; G. Bazin. The Baroque ... Greenwich CT 1968. no. 26 [detail]; G. Briganti. I vedutisti. [Venice 196-]. fig. 22. As ca. 1750; A. Busiri Vici and G. B. Busiri. Vedutista romano del '700. Rome 1966. p. 21; exh Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1959: Il settecento a Roma. no.644, fig 42; exh London, Kenwood, 1976: C.-J. Vernet. no. 21; exh Paris, Musée de la Marine, Palais de Chaillot, 1976-77: Joseph Vernet 1714-1789. no. 22, p. 60 [reproduction not good for details])
[Vernet Pa] _______. Marine Landscape on the Shores of the Mediterranean. Paris Louvre. Figures playing two trumpets and two (?) coiled horns toot away at the bow of a barge. Small detail but interesting. (F. Ingersoll-Smouse. Joseph Vernet, peintre de marine ... Paris 1926. no. 963 [poor reproduction]; Vis. Col. 375.V594.8[ii])
Balls: [BI Paris 1774] Moreau, Jean Michel (Moreau le Jeune) (1741-1814) and others. "Songés que je dois à la danse/Ce seul instant de jouissance,from J. B. La Borde, Choix de chansons. Paris, chez le Lormal, 1774. vol. II, p. 68. A ball. The orchestra includes two players of 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horns, bells up. (Early Music 12 [1984] 409)
House Concerts/Chamber Music/Rehearsals: See also Portraits and Conversation Pieces.
[Pa Amiens] Anon., 18th century. Four Figures Playing Musical Instruments. Amiens, Musée de Picardie. oil sketch. Young men play violin, flute and coiled horn. A young woman plays a harp. (Lesure pl. 21 [English edition], 23 [German edition] [fine color reproduction]; Musica calendar 1975: 21 September - 4 October [fine color reproduction). Cf an oval miniature by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (1723-1769) (Paris Louvre). (exh Paris, Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, 1956-57: Donation de D. David-Weill au Musée du Louvre. Miniatures et émaux. no.18, pl. II [useless reproduction]. Identifies the horn player as the Maréchal Prince de Soubese.)
[Barbault Pa] Barbault, Jean (1705-1766). Party in an Interior. Paris art market (1964). Figures play one or two violins, cello or small double bass, and perhaps oboe. There is a large coiled horn hanging on the wall and a slightly smaller one on the floor. And more. (Burlington 106 [1964] November ad p. lvi [miserable reproduction])
[Boitard Dr] Boitard, Louis Philippe (l'ainé) (fl. 1738-1763). The Rehearsal. Coll. Paul Mellon (1985). drawing. An orchestra, including two players of coiled horns, accompanies a singer or singers. One of the horn players empties the water out, the other is practicing his hand horn technique. (Imago musicale 2 [1985] 62. Notes Boitard was active in London and suggests that this is an English ensemble; exh Colnaghi, London, August 1964, no. 80)
[Lavrience-Decquevauvillier Pr] F. Decquevauvillier (**) after Nicolas Lavrience(1737-1807). L'assemblée au concert. engraving. Includes a coiled horn on the floor. unimp. (Kinsky p. 219 [poor reproduction]; M. Praz. An Illustrated History of Furnishing ... New York 1964. p. 161 [fair reproduction]; cat. of G. Mühlbacher sale, Paris, Petit, 15-18 May 1899, no. 160 [ok reproduction but over the page crease])
Instrument Builder/Repair Workshop: [BI Paris 1751-1772] Anon. "Chaudronnier faiseur d'Instruments"/A Parisian Brass-Instrument Maker's Workshop, from Diderot and d'Alembert, Encyclopédie; ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers, 2, 2. Paris 1763. engraving. Large and small 2-1/2 circle coiled horns hang on the wall and workmen work on several horns in various stages of construction. Below the illustration of the workshop there is a display of various tools and several completed instruments: a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn, two trumpets and a kettledrum. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 147 [fuzzy reproduction, the shop only]; R. Morley-Pegge. The French Horn ... New York 1960. frontispiece, with a description of the processes; T. L. Naylor. The Trumpet and Trombone in Graphic Arts 1500-1800. Nashville 1979. no. 85 [ok reproduction]; Early Music 1 [1973] 135 [ok reproduction]; Early Music 19 [1991] 420 [the whole page, shop and tools])
Angels: [BI Paris 1770] Pierre Claude de La Gardette (1743/45-1782). First Design for the Organ of the Abteikirche, Weingarten, from Dom Bedos de Celles, L'art du facteur d'orgues. Paris 1770. vol. III, pl. 77. engraving. Angels atop the pedal towers blow coiled horns. The only more prominent angel is the kettledrummer. They are even more prominent than the angels playing straight trumpets. (facsimile: Kassel 1965 [Documenta musicologica, 25]; MGG, vol. 4, Taf. 49; Early Music 1 [1973] 130)
Animals: [Huet-Guélard Pr] J. B. Guélard (doc.1725-1748) after Christophe Huet (doc.1735-m.1759). "Le corps de chasse." engraving. A dog looks anxiously at a monkey which blows a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Schwerdt III, p. 57)
Costume/Character Series: [Boquet Dr] Boquet, Nicolas (op. ca. 1752-1773). Costume design. Paris, Bibliothèque et Musée de l'Opéra. drawing. Figure blows a long, slender, curved horn or trumpet and holds a lance. (Early Music 11 [1983] 573)
Fountain Figures: [Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770). L'Amour est enchaîné/Love Allegory. ex Coll. Sedelmeyer. Includes a fountain with a nude figure, astride a dolphin, blowing a ribbed, curved horn from which water emerges. (Sedelmeyer sale, Paris 1907, no. 177)
Musicians, Minstrels, etc.: [Dr Anon.] Anon., 18th century. Study for a man playing a coiled horn. Frankfurt art market (1912). drawing. (Noel sale, Prestel, Frankfurt a. M., Oct. 1912 [cat. illus. ok])
Putti: See also Allegory, Elements (Water); Allegory, Other.
See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor, Instrument Builder/Repair Workshop.
Nativity: [creche Vienna OMV] Tyrolean [18th century?]. Adoration of the Child. Vienna, Oesterreichisches Museum für Volkskunde (ex Ruin, Hall, Tyrol). creche. Figures include a shepherd with an alphorn. (H. J. Hansen, ed. European Folk Art. New York 1968. p. 257 [color reproduction])
[creche Innsbruck Tvkm] Tyrolean (Zirl), 18th century. Shepherd. Innsbruck, Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum. creche figure. He has an alphorn. (W. Salmen Bilder zur Geschichte der Musik in Österreich. Innsbruck 1979. [Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 3] p. 135)
[creche Telfes] Tyrolean, 18th century (?). Shepherd. Telfes (Tirol), Pfarrkirche. creche figure. He has a trumpet-shaped alphorn ("Wurzhorn"). (W. Salmen Bilder zur Geschichte der Musik in Österreich. Innsbruck 1979. [Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 3] p. 134)
Passion -- Mocking/Flagellation of Christ: See also Emblems.
Passion -- Via dolorosa: [Wink Pa] Wink, Johann Chrysostomus (1725-1795). Via dolorosa (1769). Neuburg a. d. Donau, Hofkirche. Includes a figure blowing a curved horn with a rusticated bell. (Die Kunstdenkmäler ... Bayern, VII/5: Stadt- und Landkreis Neuburg a. d. Donau. Munich 1958. p. 118)
Other: [Enderle Fr] Enderle, Anton (doc. 1741-1760). The Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor. Tapfheim, kath. Pfarrkirche St. Peter. ceiling fresco. Among the many musical angels, two play coiled horns. Restored in 1908. It would be nice to know how much. (Die Kunstdenkmäler .. Bayern, VII/7: Landkr. Dillingen a.d. Donau. Munich 1972. p. 900 [poor reproduction]), as ca. 1750. T-B dates as 1747.)
Other: [Wink Fr] Wink, Thomas Christian (1738-1797). The Story of the True Cross: Procession of the True Cross (1768). Loh, Kirche, Nave. ceiling fresco. Includes two figures blowing large, curved horns with huge bells. (H. Tintelnot. Die barocke Freskomalerei in Deutschland. Munich 1951. p.134 [detail]; Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern, XVII: Stadt und Bezirksamt Deggendorf. Munich 1927. Taf. XIII [whole, small for details])
Other: [Baumgartner Dr] Baumgartner, Johann Wolfgang (1712-1761). St. Deicolus Protecting the Boar/The Large Boar Hunt. Cleveland, Museums of Art. drawing. Includes a figure with a very small 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 55 [1968] June cover [color reproduction])
[Hiernle Wsc] Hiernle, Ferdinand Anton (doc. 1751). St. Wendelin. Maria Talheim. wood sculpture. He cradles a ribbed alphorn in his arm (St. Wendelin was a shepherd). (A. Feulner. Munchner Barockskulptur. Munich 1922. fig. 76)
Adonis: [Tietz Sc] Tietz, Ferdinand (1708-1777). Adonis (?). Trier, Städtisches Museum, Simeonstift, Inv. I/6 (originally for the garden decorations of the Kürfrustliches Palais, Trier). sculpture. A garden figure, with a boar head between his legs. He has a little 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn (wound) hanging from a strap. (B. W. Lindemann. Ferdinand Tietz. Studien zu Werk, Stil und Ikonographie. Weissenhorn 1989. cat. 14.3.13, p. 340. The illustration caption calls him Adonis. The text suggests Adonis or Paris; K. Schaffer. Leidenschafftliches Rokoko. Die Plastik des Ferdinant Tietz in berühmten Gärten und Residenzen. Augsburg 1958. p. 77. As Meleager, with location as Trier, Volksgarten.)
Bacchanals: See also Emblems
[Tietz Wsc] Tietz, Ferdinand (1708-1777). Bacchanal. art market. limewood figure group. Led by a figure blowing a short, curved (ribbed?) horn. (Burlington110 (1968) November ad p. lix)
Diana: [Pa private collection] Austrian, mid-18th century. Allegory of the Glory of a Country and its Prosperity under the Protection of the Gods. private collection. oil sketch. Includes a female figure (doubtless Diana) holding a coiled horn. She's not very prominent. Not a good example. (exh Munich, Würzburg, 1959: Sammlung Wilhelm Reuschel. Olskizzen und Entwürfe zu Gemälden des 18.Jahrhunderts aus Suddeutschland und Österreich. no. 33, p. 23 [whole], unnumbered p. at back of volume [color detail, including horn]; exh Munich 1963: Die Sammlung Wilhelm Reuschel. p. 74 [whole], 75 [color detail, better than in the 1959 exh. cat.]; exh Salzburg 1969: Österreichische Meisterwerke aus Privatbesitz ... Abb. 31 [fair color reproduction])
[Flurer Fr] Flurer, (Franz) Ignaz (doc. 1729, m. 1742). Jupiter Casting Blessings on Steiermark/Quellspende Jupiters an die Steiermark (1732). Tobelbad, Festsaal. ceiling fresco. Figures include Diana holding a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. The horn is a bit out of shape but prominent. As clear an association with Diana as one will get. (G. Brucher. Die barocke Deckenmalerei in der Steiermark. Graz 1973. Taf. CVII-CVIII and Abb. 219 [whole, in sitù])
[Holzer Dr] Holzer, Johann Evangelist (Elias) (1709-1740?). Diana. private collection. water color drawing (study for a ceiling). Two of her nymphs have coiled horns. Diana and her "nymphs" are elegant, aristocratic ladies in 18th-century costume. (A. Feulner. Bayerisches Rokoko. Munich 1923. pl. between pp. 98-99 [nice color reproduction])
[Straub Wsc] Straub, Johann Baptist (1704-1784). The "Diana Schlitten." Munich, Nymphenburg, Marstallmuseum. sleigh. A figurehead putto blows a curved horn (Hifthorn). unimp. (Alte und moderne Kunst 20/H.142/3 [1975] 32, 33,35 [detail])
[Tietz Sc] Tietz, Ferdinand (1708-1777), copy after. Diana. Bamberg, Residenzgarten (sog. Rosengarten). sculpture. Garden figure. She holds a little 2-1/2 circle coiled horn (partly wound) (almost as small as a posthorn). (B. W. Lindemann. Ferdinand Tietz. Studien zu Werk, Stil und Ikonographie. Weissenhorn 1989. cat. no. 16.4, p. 344, as 1760/61)
[Tietz Sc] _______. Diana. Munich BNM. sculpture (bust). She has a tiny 2-1/2 circle coiled horn (wound) hanging across her bosom. Risible, to say the least. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 106 [fine reproduction]; B. W. Lindemann. Ferdinand Tietz. Studien zu Werk, Stil und Ikonographie. Weissenhorn 1989. cat. 17.1.3, p. 350 [ok reproduction].)
[Tietz Sc] _______. Diana. Veitshöchheim, Hofgarten. sculpture. Garden figure. She holds a small, 2-1/2 circle coiled horn (almost as small as a post horn) (wound). (B. W. Lindemann. Ferdinand Tietz. Studien zu Werk, Stil und Ikonographie. Weissenhorn 1989. cat. 18.10, p. 269, as 1765/68; K. Schaffer. Leidenschafftliches Rokoko. Die Plastik des Ferdinand Tietz in berühmten Gärten und Residenzen. Augsburg 1958. p. 61)
Meleager: See also Adonis.
Paris: See also Adonis.
Satyrs: [Tietz Sc] Tietz, Ferdinand (1708-1777). Satyr. Veitshöchheim, Hofgarten. sculpture. Garden figure (herme/bust). The satyr has a ribbed horn (fragment). (B. W. Lindemann. Ferdinand Tietz. Studien zu Werk, Stil und Ikonographie. Weissenhorn 1989. p. 287)
Other: [Platzer Pa] Platzer, Johann Georg (1702-1761). Atalante and Hippomenes. Braunschweig HAUM. Includes figures playing a curved horn and a looped, reverse-curve horn. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 117 [March 1991] La chronique des arts no. 1466, p. 35 [small reproduction])
[Platzer Pa] _______. Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapithae. Kassel, Staatliche Museen, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe. The centaurs are crashing (literally) an elegant party with musicians in a balcony, including a player of an undulating, looped horn or trumpet. (A. Pigler. Barockthemen ... Budapest 1956. vol. II, p. 143 [poor reproduction])
[Platzer Pa] _______. Mythological Scene. private collection (1914) = Graz?. Among various musical figures, a sea creature blowing a reverse-curve, ribbed (?) horn with a rusticated bell. (exh Darmstadt, 1914: Deutsches Barock und Rokoko. Ed. G. Biermann. Abb. 95)
[Schmidt Dr] Schmidt, Johann Martin (1718-1801). Luna [i.e. Selene] and Endymion. Vienna Albertina. drawing. Figures include a putto above them with a coiled horn. There is a curved horn lying on the ground. (Österreichische Galerie. Das Barockmuseum im unteren Belvedere. Vienna 1923. no. 44, pl. 136)
[Tietz Sc] Tietz, Ferdinand (1708-1777). Neptune and Amphitrite/The Element Water. Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. sculpture (modello). Includes a sea god blowing a spiral-ribbed horn with a rusticated bell. (B. W. Lindemann. Ferdinand Tietz. Studien zu Werk, Stil und Ikonographie. Weissenhorn 1989. p. 97 [fine reproduction])
Dance of Death: See also Life and Death.
[Pr Anon.] Anon., 18th century. Venator Jäger from a Dance of Death. engraving. Includes Death (with a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn across his chest) and a hunter. (D. Briesemeister.Bilder des Todes. Unterscheidheim 1970. Abb. E81)
Elements: See also Mythology, Other (Tietz).
[Po (Berlin) art market] German (Berlin, model by Friedrich Elias Meyer [b.1723]) 1763. Air, from a Four Elements series. Cologne art market 1986. porcelain figure. He plays a bagpipe with a goat-head chanter. The bell of a woodwind instument (oboe?) pokes out of his pocket. A tiny coiled horn (?) (posthorn?) dangles from the hem of his coat. The bell is broken off. (Die Weltkunst 56 [1986] 2276 [ok color reproduction])
[Zick Fr] Zick, Johann (1702-1762). The Elements and the Liberal Arts. Bruchsal, Schloss, Weisser Saal. fresco. Rustic figures pay bagpipe, shawm and small alphorn (?). (H. Tintelnot. Die barocke Freskomalerei in Deutschland. Munich 1951. p. 172)
Fame: [Fr ex Graz-Gösting] Austrian, late 1730s. Apotheosis of the House of Attem. Graz-Gösting, Schloss, Gartenpavillon. ceiling fresco (destroyed in 1936). Fame, tumbling through the skies, blows a coiled horn (!). There never was a more dramatic one. Pity it's no longer there. (G. Brucher. Die barocke Deckenmalerei in der Steiermark. Graz 1973. Abb. 221 [fair reproduction])
Hearing (and others of the Five Senses): See also Emblems (Taste).
[Götz Pr] Götz, Gottfried Bernhard (1708-1778). Auditus/Hearing. engraving. Includes youths with a coiled horn and a bagpipe. A lady sings. Note that the pose of the horn player is similar to the one in Nilsson's Summer (below). (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 130)
[Probst Pr] Probst, Georg Balthasar (op. ca. 1750). Hearing, from a Five Senses series. pub. Augsburg ca. 1750. hand-colored engraving. The large orchestra includes two players of coiled horns (bells held in opposite directions). (Lesure pl. 51 [English edition], 58 [German edition] [fine color reproduction]; T. L. Naylor. The Trumpet and Trombone in Graphic Arts 1500-1800. Nashville 1979. no. 49 [poor reproduction])
Life and Death: [BI Linz 1753] Rentz, Michael. Illustration from his Geistliche Todts-Gedanken bey allerhand Gemählden unnd Schildereyen. Linz 1753. engraving. Two skeletons blow rather large curved horns (one with a rusticated bell) while another plays small kettledrums. (D. Briesemeister. Bilder des Todes. Unterscheidheim 1970. Abb. 46)
Months/Zodiac: [Pa Nuremberg] Anon. (Nuremberg), 1771. November? from a Twelve Months series. (formerly?) Nuremberg, Tetzelgasse 22. wall painting. Includes two huntsmen playing coiled horns. (F. T. Schulz. Nürnbergs Bürgerhäuser, I/2. Leipzig [preface 1933]. p. 660)
[Seekatz Pa] Seekatz, Johann Konrad (1719-1768). November? from a Twelve Months series. Frankfurt a. M., Goethe Museum (from the Gemäldesalon of Graf François de Thorane). In the main, central panel, boys play at hunting, one playing a coiled horn. In the smaller panel below, a boy has a coiled, open-hooped horn across his shoulder. (exh Darmstadt, 1914: Deutsches Barock und Rokoko. Ed. G. Biermann. Abb. 258; H. Schmitz. Kunst und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Munich 1922. p. 247 [poor reproduction] which seems to give the location as Weimar, Goethehaus)
[Tietz Sc] Tietz, Ferdinand (1708-1777). January, mModello for the cycle of the Months at Seehoff. Nuremberg GNM. lindenwood figure. The figure seems to have a little 3-1/2 circle horn at his feet. unimp. (B. W. Lindemann. Ferdinand Tietz ... Studien zu Werk, Stil und Iconographie. Weissenhorn. pl. V [color reproduction])
Seasons (Summer): See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Idylls.
[Nilson Pr] Nilson, Johann Esaias (1721-1788), attr. Summer [from a Four Seasons series?]. Munich SgS. drawing. Includes a youth blowing a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn and a young woman with a plucked stringed instrument. The pose of the horn player is similar to the one in Götz' Auditus (above). Cf. Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Idylls (Eberspach). (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 130)
[BI Augsburg ca.1758-60] Designed by Gottfried Eichler, Jr. (1715-1770). "Nuncius/Die Nachricht," from Cesare Ripa, ... Sinnbilder. Augsburg, Johann Georg Hertel [ca.1758-60]. No. 2. Includes a post rider blowing a posthorn. (reprinted as Cesare Ripa, Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery. Ed. E. A. Maser. New York 1971)
[BI Augsburg ca.1758-60] _______. "Calumnia/Das Splitter-Richten." no. 94. Calumny holds a long, conical horn (sort of a junior alphorn).
[BI Augsburg ca.1758-60] _______. "Gustus/Der Geschmack." no. 112. In the background (the fatto) a Bacchanal, with three figures blowing curved horns (and a female figure playing a triangle).
[BI Augsburg ca.1758-60] _______. "Illusio/Die Verspottung." no. 129. In the background (the fatto) the Mocking of Christ with a figure blowing a curved horn.
[Heidelberg KM] Anon, ca. 1750. Portrait of a Waldhornist from Kurpfalz. Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum. A liveried musician with a 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn (clear of the funnel-shaped mouthpiece with a narrow rim) and a tiny book of musical manuscript. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 145, with a transcription of the horn call displayed in the manuscript book)
[Pa Regensburg TuTZa] Anon., 18th century. Portrait of Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn und Taxis (1704-1773). Regensburg, Fürst Thurn und Taxis Zentralarchiv. He holds a tiny 1-1/2 circle coiled posthorn. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, Taf. III, opp. p. 88 [fine color reproduction]; Hiller 1985, Taf. IX [fine color reproduction])
[Ziegler Pa] Ziegler, Johann (1701-1744). Portrait of Ludwig Georg, Markgraf von Baden, Age 37 (173-?). Pforzheim art market. On the ground, beside him, a prominent 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Die Weltkunst 52. [1982] 1417 [minuscule reproduction])
See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Views.
[BI Augsburg 1745] Johann Baptist (1712-1774 or later) and Joseph Sebastian Klauber (ca.1700/11-1768) after F. G. Degle. Frontispiece of Meinrad Spiess, Tractatus musicus compositorio-practicus ... Augsburg, J. J. Lotters Erben, 1745. engraving. Among the several musical instruments across the top of the page (all poorly depicted) is a 2-1/2? circle coiled horn (no mouthpiece). (catalog 320 of Antiquariat Koch, Berlin, no. 34, p. 47 [ok reproduction])
[BI Zürich 1761] Anon. Title illustration of the Neujahrsblatt der Gesellschaft auf das Jahr 1761. engraving. The room of the German school. Includes a pile of musical instruments under the banner "Hallelvia," including two large 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 coiled horns. (F. Jakob. Der Orgelbau im Kanton Zürich. Bern 1971. Abb. 16. Says it is the title illustration, but it is captioned "Tab. XLIX.")
[CI Leonberg 1748] Wangner, Jacob (ca.1703-1781). Stag Hunt (Water Course) near Leonberg, 8 October 1748. etching. It's basically a massacre, accompanied by a corps of trumpets and kettledrums. Beside the caption and a coat of arms in the right foreground there is a small coiled horn hung on a dead tree branch, a spear through the center of the coil. (Hirth no. 3233 [ok reproduction]; =? M. Schefold. Alte Ansichten aus Württemberg. Stuttgart 1956. vol. I, pl. 167 [useless reproduction])
[Fr Nuremberg GNM] Anon., ca. 1760. Orpheus and the Animals. Nuremberg GNM (formerly in the Music Room of Markgräfin Wilhelmine von Bayreuth). ceiling fresco. Surrounding the central subject are musical trophies and musical instruments, including a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (A. Ott. Tausend Jahre Musikleben, 800-1800. Munich 1963. pl. 70)
[Sc Bayreuth-Eremitage] Bossi, C. D. (op. mid-18th century). Musical Trophies. Bayreuth-Eremitage, Altes Schloss, Music Room. gilded wall stucco. Includes coiled horns. (Prinz Franz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. Schlösser in Franken. Munich 1974. fig. 145. As by C. D. Bossi.) Thieme and Becker says is probably Giuseppe Antonio Bossi.
[Sc Engelszell Stiftskirche] Anon.?, ca. 1760? (the organ is by Franz Xaver Chrismann, ca.1760). Musical Trophies. Engelszell, Stiftskirche. low relief sculpture. There are four musical trophies decorating the organ loft, one with a trumpet and a 1-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn. (A. Forer. Orgeln in Österreich. Vienna 1973. no. 61, p. 161)
[Sc Erfurt Dom] Düpffeldt, Johann. Gravestone of Melchior von Harstall (m.1739). Erfurt, Dom. sandstone sculpture. Includes a military trophy including a small, 1-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn and two frame drums. (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Sachsen, I: Die Stadt Erfurt. Burg 1927. p. 342)
[Sc Marienberg bei Raitenhasloch] Bayr, Anton (organ). Organ loft decoration (organ 1769). Marienberg bei Raitenhasloch. wood relief. Includes a trophy with a violin, coiled horn and music book. (G. Brenninger. Orgeln in Altbayern. Munich 1978. p. 144 [fine color reproduction])
[Sc Nuremberg Glöckleinsgasse] Anon, 1761. Cartouche. Nürnberg, (formerly?) Haus Glöckleinsgasse 4 (zum Goldenen Posthorn). sandstone relief. A coiled posthorn is its main design. (F. T. Schulz. Nürnbergs Bürgerhäuser. I/1. Leipzig [pref. 1933]. p. 322)
[Sc St. Anton bei Mainburg] Anon.?, ca. 1740? Organ loft decoration. St. Anton bei Mainburg. The reliefs on the front of the organ loft unclude a trophy with a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn and a trumpet. The two male half-figures supporting the organ loft have coiled horns across their chests. (G. Brenninger. Orgeln in Altbayern. Munich 1978. p. 80 [color reproduction])
[Sc Schleissheim] Günther, Ignaz (1725-1775). Trophy. Schleissheim, Schloss, Portal of the east facade. sculpture. Includes a pair of trophies emblematic of War and Peace. The trophy for War includes a compact, 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn. (A. Feulner. Bayerisches Rokoko. Munich 1923. p. 66)
[Sc Würzburg Marienberg] Tietz, Ferdinand (1708-1777). Trophies. Würzburg, Festung Marienberg. sculpture. One includes the head of a wild boar and a small 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn. (B. W. Lindemann. Ferdinand Tietz ... Studien zu Werk, Stil und Ikonographie. Weissenhorn 1987. cat. no. 18.14, p. 277, as 1765/68)
[Montalegre Pr] Montalegre, Johann Daniel de (1697-1768). The prospect of the Organ in the Johannes Kirche, Zittau. engraving. The organ, destroyed in 1757, was built by Gottfried Silbermann, 1738-1741. Two 1-1/2 circle coiled horns top the trophies which were part of the decoration. (U. Dähnert. Historische Orgeln in Sachsen. Leipzig 1980. pl. 63 [ok reproduction]; MGG vol. 14, cols. 1375-76 [fair reproduction])
[BI Augsburg 1736] Jacob Andreas Fridrich, the Elder (1684-1751). Title page of Gottlieb Muffat. Componimenti Musicali per il Cembalo. Augsburg, Johann Christian Leopold, 1736 (?). engraving. Putti in the lower right play bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy and a small, ribbed alphorn (in contrast to putti on the left playing guitar, violin, cello and recorder [?]). The frieze of musical instruments across the top incudes a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Fraenkel no. 141; R. M. Haas. Die Musik des Barocks. Potsdam 1928, R/1949. p. 260 [poor reproduction]; MGG IX, col. 921-22 [poor reproduction]; The New Grove vol. 8, p. 237)
[BI Leipzig 1736] Christian Friedrich Boëtius (1706-1782) after Johann Adolf Richter (1682-1768) (?). View of Leipzig. Frontispiece for "Sperontes" (Johann Sigismund Scholtze), Singende Muse an der Pleisse. Leipzig 1736. engraving. The garland of musical instruments around the cartouche includes a 1/12 circle coiled horn. (Fraenkel no. 144; MGG vol. l, Taf. XXXIX/1 [fuzzy reproduction]; Early Music 6 [1978] 423; Early Music 13 [1985] 331 [poor reproduction])
[BI Leipzig 1736] Christian Friedrich Boëtius (1706-1782). Title page of Georg Christian Schemelli, Musicalisches Gesang-Buch. Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, 1736. engraving. The title cartouche is flanked by trophies of musical instruments, one of which includes a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn with a fantastically shaped bell. (Fraenkel no. 145)
[BI Vienna 1726] P. A. Dietell [i. e. Franz Ambros Dietel (m.1730)] after Joseph Neckh. Title page of Gottlieb Muffat, 72. Versetl. Vienna 1726. engraving. Frieze of musical instruments across the top includes a partly visible looped horn. unimp. (K. M. Komma. Musikgeschichte in Bildern. Stuttgart 1961. p. 149)
[textile private collection] German (Moritzburg), ca. 1740. Design with Hunters. private collection. blue printed tablecloth border. Two hunters on foot, inside funneling fences, blow coiled horns. Cute but unimp. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 85)
[Durand Sc] Durand, Antoine-Sébastien (doc.1740-1765). Terrine with hunting motifs (1749/50). Copenhagen, Royal Sliver Collection. silver. Includes a 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn. (Die Weltkunst 59 [1989] 238)
[Nilson Pr] Nilson, Johann Esaias (1721-1788). La Musique du Cabinet/Die Music bei Hoff. engraving. The border decoration includes two 1-1/2 circle coiled horns, two trumpets and kettledrums. unimp. (Hirth no. 3201)
[Schmidt Pr] Schmidt, Georg Friedrich (1712-1775). "Executio anima compositionis." etching. Many musical instruments in the border, including a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. unimp. (MgB IV/3, p. 102 [poor reproduction]; R.Haas. Aufführungspraxis der Musik. Potsdam 1931, R/1949. p. 221 [poor reproduction]; exh Bremen, Kunsthalle, 1971: Bildkunst im Zeitalter J. S. Bachs. cat. no. 243, p. 275)
Carnival: [Ta Würzburg Residenz] German (Würzburg, cartoon by Andreas Pirot [doc. 1725-m.1763/64]), 1740-1745. Italian Comedians Cavorting in the Piazza San Marco. Würzburg, Residenz, Venezianisches Zimmer. Comedians play guitar and 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. A bear holds a bagpipe. (Göbel III/1, pl. 241; M. Jarry. World Tapestry. New York 1969. p. 269 [fine reproduction]. AsHarlequins Entry into Venice, from the Venetian Carnival series; H. Kohlhaussen. Geschichte des deutschen Kunsthandwerks. Munich 1955. p. 532; J. M. Ritz. Franken. Munich 1963 [Bayerische Kunstgeschichte, II] pl. XV opp. p. 76 [color reproduction])) Another in Schloss Veitshochheim, Gobelinzimmer. (Prinz Franz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. Schlösser in Franken. Munich 1974. p. 253 [unhelpful reproduction, but in sitù])
Fairs/Festivals: [Grimm Pa] Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus (1733-1794). Street in Mortlake with a Fair (1771). private collection. A coiled horn hangs on a hook on a peep-show box. Prominent. (R. M. Clay. Samuel Hieronymus Grimm. London 1941. fig. 7 opp. p. 8)
Hunts and Hunters: See also Saints, Other; Allegory, Death, Dance of; Allegory, Months/Zodiac; Portraits; Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Views.
[Sc Schloss Moritzburg] Attr. to the sculptors Benjamin Thomae (1682-1751), (Johann) Christian Kirchner (doc. 1717-m.1732) or one of their pupils, ca. 1729/30. Piqueur. Schloss Moritzburg, Garden, Main Entrance, left, Entrance to the Castle. sculptured figure. There are four of them on balustrades, blowing 1-1/2 open hooped horns, hand on hip. One of the most famous illustrations of a figure of the hunt with a horn. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. p. 84; E. Haenel. Dresden. Berlin 1935. [Deutsche Lande, deutsche Kunst] p. 94; H. Zerkaulen. Sächsische Königsschlösser. Bielefeld 1934. p. 47)
[BI Nuremberg 1748] Anon. Title page of L'Almanac pour les amis de la chasse oder Jagd und Weidwercks Callender auf das Schalt Jahr 1748. Nuremberg, Georg Wolffg. Knorr, 1748. engraving. Two figures and two dogs. One figure holds a musket, the other a small 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. unimp. (Schwerdt I, pl. 18)
[medal private collection] Anon. Hunting medallion of Landgraf Ludwig VIII (1739-1768) von Hessen-Darmstadt (reverse). private collection. medal. Includes four mounted figures with open-hooped horns across their chests. unimp. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. p. 110)
[medal private collection] Anon., 1751. Hunting medallion of Landgraf Ludwig VIII (1739-1768) von Hessen-Darmstadt (reverse). private collection. medal. Includes mounted figures with open-hooped horns across their chests. unimp. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. p. 110)
[Dr Cologne WRM] Anon, 18th century. View of Jagdschloss Herzogsfreude. Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum. drawing. A stag hunt takes place in the foreground. Figures include two mounted huntsmen with coiled horns. Quaint. (exh Brühl, Schloss Augustusburg, 1961: Kurfürst Clemens August, Landesherr und Mäzen des 18.Jahrhunderts. cat. no. 730, Abb. 85)
[Gl private collection] Anon. (Thüringen), second quarter, 18th century. "Also verkehrt sichs in der Welt." private collection. cut glass. A hunt parody and an allegory of the world upside down. Rabbits (one with a fox horn, one with a 1-1/2 coiled horn) are roasting hounds. (1973 catalog of the collection of Helfried Krug, vol. II, fig 67)
[Fr Schloss Ludwigsburg] Anon.? 18th century. Huntsman. Schloss Ludwigsburg, Fürstenbau, Dianazimmer. ceiling fresco. He has a coiled horn. A mythological figure. Unusual to have a male figure with Diana. (W. Fleischhauer. Barock im Herzogthum Württemberg. Stuttgart 1958. Abb. 103)
[Pa Schloss Schwetzingen] Anon., mid-18th century. Stag Hunt on the Neckar, Dilsberg (Kr. Heidelberg), with Elector Carl Theodor, 1758. Schloss Schwetzingen (Mannheim). Includes two figures with coiled horns in a boat. Tiny detail. (M. Schefold. Alte Ansichten aus Baden. Weissenhorn 1971. pl. 75)
[Po (Bayreuth) art market] German (Bayreuth), 1728-1744. Stag hunt. London art market (1979). porcelain yellow-ware coffee service. Includes a hunter on foot, chasing the stag with his dog while blowing a little 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Sale, Sotheby's 16.X.1979; Burlington 121 [1979] Oct ad p. xvi)
[Po (Hoechst) Mainz art market] German (Hoechst), c. 1755. Huntsman. Mainz, Altertumsmuseum und Gemäldegalerie. porcelain figure. He leans against a tree, and has a coiled horn, dog and dead stag. (1964 catalog, Höchster Fayencen und Porzellane. no. 92)
[Po (Künersberg) Munich BNM] German (Künersberg) (attr. Adam Heinrich Klug), ca. 1745. Boar Hunt. Munich BNM. fayence wall plaque. Includes a mounted hunter blowing a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 118 [ok reproduction])
[Po (Künersberg) Munich BNM] German (Künersberg), ca. 1750. Decorated Pochspielbrett. Munich BNM. painted fayence game board. Decorations include a huntsman playing a coiled horn. (H. Kohlhaussen. Geschichte des deutschen Kunsthandwerks. Munich 1955. p. 466)
[Po (Lenzburg] Zurich SLM] Swiss (Lenzburg, Hünerwadel factory), ca. 1763. Inkstand designed as a hunting scene. Zurich SLM. painted faience inkstand. Includes a figure with a 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn serenading his huntress lady. (Connoisseur 154 [1963] 158)
[Po (Ludwigsburg] art market] German (Ludwigsburg, model by Johann Christoph Haselmeyer) [18th century]. A Huntsman. London art market (1962). porcelain figure (group). A coiled horn hangs on a tree. He has two dogs and a dead stag. (sale, Christie's 26.II.1962; Burlington 104 [1962] February ad p. iv)
[Po (Meissen) Dortmund MKK] German (Meissen), mid-18th century. A Hunter Serenading the Bust of a Woman on a Pedestal. Dortmund, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte. porcelain tankard with a silver top. The hunter blows a coiled horn. (R. Fritz. Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund. Hamburg 1964. no. 42, p. 77)
[Po (Meissen) Münster WLM] German (Meissen, model by Johann Joachim Kaendler [1706-1775] and J. G. Ehder [1716/17-1750]), 1741. Jagdpokal of Kurfürst Clemens August. Münster WLM. covered porcelain hunting cup. A figure of a hunter at the base blows a 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn, his left hand on his hip. (H. Westhoff-Krummacher. "Jadgplaisir in Porzellan -- Der Jagdpokal des Kurfürsten Clemens August." Die Weltkunst 51 [1981] 3474-5, this reproduced p. 3474 [badly blurred reproduction], 3475 [good detail of the horn player] Notes that pulls from the original mold were being made as late as 1924. This probably an 18th-century pull.) Another version: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 47 (Spring 1990) 31 [fine color reproduction]. Notes was comissioned to commemorate the eleventh stag killed during the hunting season of 1739. Notes similarity of the design of the cover to a drawing attr. Johann Conrad Schlaun. [See 17th-18th century section -- Decorative Elements.] This one was decorated for Augustus III of Saxony, who succeeded his father, Augustus the Strong, in 1773.) Another version: Waddesdon, N.T. (1971 catalog, no. 24 [fine color reproduction]). Another version (?). sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York 8.III.1979 (Burlington 121 [1979] February ad p. xxvii [fine reproduction] Another (ex coll. Fuchs, Ludwigsburg) (Die Weltkunst 51 [1981] 1086 [fine color reproduction] with reference to E. Wagner. "Der Jagdpokal des Kurfürsten Clemens August." Keramus 71 [1975] 9-16.)
[Po (Meissen) art market] German (Meissen, the gilt-silver mountings probably Augsburg), ca. 1730. Hunt. Hamburg art market (1981). porcelain covered tankard. A huntsman has a coiled horn. unimp. (Die Weltkunst 51 [1981] 2414 [ok color reproduction])
[Po (Nymphenburg) Munich BNM] German (Nymphenburg, model by Franz Anton Bustelli [doc. 1754-m.1763]). Hunting group. Munich BNM. porcelain figure group. Incudes a figure blowing a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (A. Feulner. Bayerisches Rokoko. Munich 1923. p. 83)
[Po (Nymphenburg) no location] German (Nymphenburg, model by Franz Anton Bustelli). Huntsman, from Die grosse Nymphenburger Jagd. no location. He plays his 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn in a very contorted position. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, frontispiece [fine color reproduction] no location)
[Po (Strasbourg) ex Berlin] Alsatian (Strasbourg), ca. 1750. Hunt. Berlin, ex Schlossmuseum fayence figure group. Includes a figure with a coiled horn. (H. Schmitz. Kunst und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Munich 1922. p. 292 [small reproduction])
[Wo Leipzig MKhw] Anon., ca. 1750. Huntsman. Leipzig, Museum des Kunsthandwerks. wooden cookie mould. He plays a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 84 [fine detail])
[Wo Stuttgart WLM] S. German, ca. 1770. Cookie mould with various figures. Stuttgart WLM. wooden cookie mould. Includes a mounted hunter with a coiled horn. (exh Cologne, Kunsthalle, 1968-69: Volkskunst aus Deutschland. Österreich und der Schweiz. no. 923, pl. 47)
[Eger Pa] Eger, Georg Adam (1727-1808). Hunt. Kranichstein, Jagdschloss. Includes three figures with coiled horns. (U. Pfistermeister. Rund um Frankfurt III (SW). Würzburg 1971. [Verborgene Kostbarkeiten, 11] p. 57 [ok detail])
[Eger Pa] _______. Hunt, with Landgraf Ludwig VIII of Hessen-Darmstadt. formerly collection of the Grossherzog von Hessen. Includes several (about five) prominent mounted figures with coiled horns. (exh Darmstadt, 1914: Deutsches Barock und Rokoko. Ed. G. Biermann. Abb. 206 [poor reproduction], as by E. A. Eger.) There is a similar painting, as Anon. ca. 1770, in Nuremberg GNm. (A. Ott. Tausend Jahre Musikleben, 800-1800. Munich 1963. pl. 72 [fine detail])
[Eger Pa] _______. "Paforce [sic]-Jagd im Jahre 1755 unter Landgraf Ludwig VIII von Hessen-Darmstadt." location unknown. A stag hunt at Kranichstein near Darmstadt, the shooting lodge of the Grand Duke of Hesse. Four hunters have open-hoop coiled horns, two played, one held and another over the shoulder. (Schwerdt IV, pl. 74 [fine color reproduction])
[Grund Pa] Grund, Norbert (1717-1767). Hunters' Rest. Vienna art market. One of the three principal figures has a coiled horn. (Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 17-20.III. 1970, ca. no. 45; Alte und moderne Kunst 15/H.110 [1970] 54 [minuscule reproduction])
[Grund Pa] _______. Huntsman. Berlin art market. Includes a coiled horn. Dramatic, but painting in poor condition. (sale, Henrici, Berlin, 29.VI.1920 [cat. illus. poor])
[F Kobell Dr] Kobell, Ferdinand (1740-1799). Hunters and Hounds in a Woods. Leipzig art market (1921). drawing. Includes a mounted figure with a coiled horn. (sale, Boerner, Leipzig, 11-12.XI.1921 [cat. illus. fair])
[Schäfer Me] Schäfer, Anton (designer). Hunting Medallion of Landgraf Ludwig VIII (1739-1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt (obverse). private collection? Includes a figure with a coiled horn. unimp. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 110 [tiny reproduction] no location)
[J H Tischbein Pa] Tischbein, Johann Heinrich (the Elder) (1722-1789). Stag Hunt of Landgraf Friedrich II in the Auerpark, Schloss Bellevue, Kassel. Adolphseck bei Fulda, Schloss Fasanerie. Includes two mounted hunters with large coiled horns. (Marburg 187 870 [too small])
[Xhrouüet Dr] Xhrouüet, Mathieu (op. ca. 1738). Hunt, with a View of Schloss Bensberg and Kurfürst Johann Wilhelm Hunting. Bonn, Landeskonservator Rheinland. drawing. Includes a huntsman with a coiled horn. unimp. (exh Schloss Homburg, 1973: Historische Ansichten und Pläne zu Rheinischen Baudenkmälern. Abb. l)
Idylls: [Eberspach Dr] Eberspach, Johann Jacob (1717-1754). Figures in a Park. Frankfurt a.M., SKI. drawing. Includes a youth playing a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn and another figure playing a plucked stringed instrument. There is an unplayed bagpipe. Very rococo. (1973 catalog: Deutsche Zeichnungen. Alte Meister. Supp. no. 829, p. 224. Notes that this is a copy with few changes after the etching "L'Été" by J. E. Holzer after J. G. Bergmüller. The same motif is in a drawing attr. J. E. Nilson [Munich SgS] [See Allegory, Seasons (Summer)])
Pageants: [CI Bozen/Bolzano 1760] Gustav Andreas Wolfgang (1692-1775) after Johann Josef Menz. Festive Illumination for the Visit in Bozen/Bolzano of Isabella Maria Philippa of Bourbon-Parma, Fiancée of Emperor Josef II, 13 October 1760. pub. Augsburg 1761. engraving. Includes an orchestra with two players of 2-1/2 circle coiled horns (played bells up, one bell to the left, one to the right). (A man sitting on the ground next to them holds his ears.) The horn players, and a double-bass player are the foremost musicians. Prominent. (exh Innsbruck TLF, 1983: Jakob Stainer und seine Zeit. no. 121, p. 79 [detail])
[CI Munich 1765] Will, Johann Martin (1727-1806). "Die von Sr. Churfürst Durchlaucht in Bayern ... zu Faschings-Zeit Gnädigst ausgestellten Bauren-Hochzeit in Munchen ... 10 Ienner 1765." engraving. Includes a dance orchestra with two pairs of musicians blowing (as depicted) 1-1/2 circle coiled horns; a wagon full of musicians ("Bauren Musicanten") playing bagpipe, 4 oboes (or clarinets), flute, bassoon and two 1-1/2 circle coiled horns; another wagon full of musicians ("Hofmusikanten") playing bagpipe, 4 (?) oboes, trumpet and two 1-1/2 circle coiled horns; and another wagon ("Bauren Musicanten") with musicians playing two (?) violins, hurdy gurdy, bagpipe, five woodwinds and an alphorn. (N. Lieb. München. Die Geschichte seiner Kunst. Munich 1971. leaf 206v [too small for details]; MgB IV/4, p. 179 [nice, big reproduction, it takes a very big one to do it justice])
Pastorales: See also Allegory, Times of Day/Days of Week
Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees: See also Miscellaneous Religious Subjects. Other; Pageants.
[BI Zurich 1759] Anon. Military Unit from Musicalische Neu-Jahrs-Geschenke. Zurich 1759. engraving. A troop of riflemen is preceded by a little military band of two oboes, two bassoons and two 2-1/2 circle coiled horns (held straight forward, like trumpets). (M. Remnant. Musical Instruments of the West. London 1978. p. 212 [detail])
[Pa Frankfurt a M SHM] Anon., 18th century. Procession of the Weavers, Kaufbeuren, 1774. Frankfurt am Main, Städtisches Historisches Museum. They are moving from one guild house to another, always a very festive occasion. There are two six-piece wind bands, each with three treble woodwinds, a bassoon and two coiled horns (bells up). (K. Gröber. Alte deutsche Zunftherrlichkeit. ** 1936. p. 50. no location [poor reproduction])
[Pa Bozen/Bolazno MdS] Tyrolean (S. Tirol), 1759. Translation of the Relics of the Blessed Hinrich of Bozen and Others. Bozen/Bolzano, Museum der Stadt. The "Pfarr Music" is made up of musicians playing twelve violins and two coiled horns (bells up), and at least twelve adult singers. Painting in poor condition. (W. Salmen. Bilder zur Geschichte der Musik in Österreich. Innsbruck 1979. p. 89 [useless reproduction] and detail [ok])
[Pa Vienna HMS] Austrian, ca. 1745. Parade of the Militia in Vienna, 27.X.1745, on the Occasion of the Return of Franz I and Maria Theresia from the Emperor's Coronation. Vienna, Historisches Museum der Stadt, Inv. 31.477. Includes a little military band with a player of a coiled horn (hand horn technique). (W. Salmen. Bilder zur Geschichte der Musik in Österreich. Innsbruck 1979. p. 111 [useless for details])
Street Scenes: [Füssli Dr] Füssli, A. (1741-1807), attr. "L'orchestre." Zurich art market (1924). drawing. A satirical drawing of a great variety of street musicians including a woman (!) playing a coiled horn. (sale, Mincieux, Gutekunst and Kundig, Zürich 9-11.XII.1924, no. 230)
Views: See also Hunts and Hunters.
[Grebe-Leth Pr] Frederik Willem Grebe after Hendrik de Leth, d. J. (m. ca. 1766). "'T Schenken huys by Brüell/La maison de Schenken pres de Brüell. engraving. A foreground figure has a coiled horn slung over his shoulder. (W. Hansmann. Schloss Falkenlust. Cologne 1973. p. 84. With date 1763/64. Notes that the caption is in error. It is a view of Schloss Falkenlust.)
[Jacoby Dr] Jacoby, Philipp Joseph (?) (1708-1794), attr. Title page for "Parc d'Eisenstaat A. S. A. M.gr Le Prince d'Esterhazy ... Düsseldorf art market (1966). drawing. Includes a hunter with a 2-1/2 coiled horn passing by and another coiled horn as a decoration. (C. G. Boerner cat. no. 44 [1966] pl. 30 [ok reproduction]),
Village/Rustic Scenes: [Pa Cologne WRM] Anon. (Seekatz?), first half, 18th century. Return from the Fair. Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Rustic figures include players of violin, cello, woodwind, and hurdy-gurdy. The hurdy-gurdy player also has a coiled horn slung across his chest. (M. Bröcker. Die Drehleier, ihr Bau und ihre Geschichte. Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1977. fig. 182; H. Engel. Musik und Gesellschaft. Berlin 1960. opp. p. 256)
[Grimm Dr] Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus (1733-1794). Landscape. London V & A. drawing. Staffage includes a man setting off, carrying his alphorn. unimp. (R. M. Clay. Samuel Hieronymus Grimm. London 1941. fig. 7 opp. p. 8)
[Rousseau Pa] Rousseau, Franz Jakob (ca.1717-1804). Fair on the Grounds of Schloss Clemensruh, Poppelsdorf (1746-7). Bonn, Städtische Kunstsammlung. May include a figure with a coiled horn. (exh Brühl, Schloss Augustusburg, 1961: Kurfürst Clemens August, Landesherr und Mäzen. no. 77; W. Bader et al. Aus Schloss Augustusburg zu Brühl und Falkenlust. Cologne 1961. pl. 12)
[Schenau Pa] Schenau, Johann Elias (1737-1806). The Marriage Contract (1802). Bautzen, Stadtmuseum. Outside a village brass band has players of four trumpets and a coiled horn. S. European setting. (1954 catalog, Gemäldesammlung, pl. 5)
[Seekatz Pa] Seekatz, Johann Conrad (1719-1768). Village Dance. Frankfurt am Main SKI. Village musicians on an improvised platform play violin, cello and coiled horn. (K. Kaiser. Deutsche Malerei um 1800. Leipzig 1959. p. 104 [fair reproduction])
[Seekatz Pa] _______. Village Fair. location unknown. Music is provided by players of violin, cello, oboe (?) and 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn. (exh Darmstadt, 1914: Deutsches Barock und Rokoko. Ed. G. Biermann. Abb. 251 [fair reproduction]; Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. p. 129)
Other: [Dr Anon.] Anon., mid-18th century. "Welch ein Hoch auf Herzog Ernst August von Sachsen." no location. drawing. Students (?) seated on little hummocks below the outcropping of the Metilstein near Eisenach, play two violins, cello, two woodwinds and two coiled horns. (Bau- und Kunst-Denkmäler Thüringens XXXIX [III/1]: Eisenach. Jena 1915. p. 380. no location)
[Seekatz Pa] Seekatz, Johann Conrad (1719-1768). Figures Along a Quay (1768). Darmstadt, Schloss. overdoor painting. Elegant figures along a quay, serenaded at the left by two figures playing coiled horns. (H. Schmitz. Kunst und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Munich 1922. p. 245)
[Morgenstern-Seekatz Dr] Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern (1738-1819) after J. C. Seekatz. Gypsies Crossing a Brook by Torchlight. Frankfurt a. M. SKI. drawing. Among their belongings a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn and a straight trumpet. (1973 catalog: Deutsche Zeichnungen. Alte Meister. Supp. no. 1775, p. 285). The Seekatz painting from which this is drawn is lost, but there is a copy in Konstanz, Wessenberg Gemäldegalerie.
Balls (and Dances): [Ms Halle Stadtarchiv] Anon., mid-18th century. Student Ball in the Konzertsaal of the Ratskeller, Halle, Saale, from the Stammbuch of Paulus Serres. Halle/Saale, Stadtarchiv. gouache miniature. The accompanying orchestra includes three violins, a cello or double bass, and two coiled horns, bells up. (MgB IV/4, p. 137 [ok reproduction]; MGG vol. 5, col. 1366 [fair reproduction])
[CI Leipzig 1746] Anon. Dance in a "Lust-Saal." Title engraving from Angenehmer Zeitvertreib .. auf dem ... Lust-Saale ... ohnweit Leipzig ... Frankfurt and Leipzig 1746. engraving. The accompanying musicians sit around a table and play two violins, a cello, oboe, bassoon and two small, looped horns. (MgB IV/4, p. 191)
[CI Vienna 1744] Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748) after Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena (1696-1757). "Répresentation du grand Salon, ou Sa Majeste la Reine à donné le 12. Janvier 1744, le magnifique Bal à l'occasion du Mariage de son Altesse ... l'Archiduchesse [Maria Anna] ... avec le Serenissime Prince Charles de Lorraine ... engraving. A masked ball in the Hofreitschule, Vienna, 1744. The orchestra includes players of coiled horns? (MgB IV/4, p. 197 [useless for details])
[Rousseau Pa] Rousseau, Franz Jakob (ca. 1717-1804). Masked Ball in the Hoftheater, Bonn (1754). Brühl, Schloss Augustusburg. Includes opposing orchestras, each with one player of a large, almost open-hooped coiled horn. (W. Bader et al. Aus Schloss Augustusburg zu Brühl und Falkenlust. Cologne 1961. p. 41 [poor color reproduction]; exh Brühl, Schloss Augustusburg, 1961: Kurfürst Clemens August, Landesherr und Mäzen des 18. Jahrhunderts. cat. no. 254, pl. 24; MgB IV/4, p. 177 [poor color reproduction], p. 176 [detail including the horn player in the orchestra at the right]) (There was a series of four paintings commissioned, of which three survive.)
[Rousseau Pa] _______. Masked Ball in the Hoftheater, Bonn (1754). Cologne, Stadtmuseum, Zeughaus. Includes opposing orchestras, each with two players of large, almost open-hooped coiled horns, the bells in opposite directions. (W. Bader et al. Aus Schloss Augustusburg zu Brühl und Falkenlust. Cologne 1961. pl. 11; A. Ott. Tausend Jahre Musikleben, 800-1800. Munich 1963. pl. 81 [fair reproduction], 82 [detail including the horn players in the orchestra at the left]; exh Brühl, Schloss Augustusburg, 1961: Kurfürst Clemens August, Landesherr und Mäzen des 18. Jahrhunderts. cat. no. 255, fig. 72, fig. 73 [good detail of the orchestra at the left]; MgB IV/4, p. 177 [fair color reproduction], p. 176 [detail including the horn players in the orchestra at the right])
Church Music: [BI Leipzig 1732] I. C. Demme. Frontispiece to Johann Gottfried Walther, Musikalisches Lexikon. Leipzig, Wolffgang Deer, 1732. engraving. A large 2-1/2 circle coiled horn hangs on the wall (among other instruments). (Kinsky p. 255 [tiny reproduction]; Komma p. 163 [tiny reproduction]; Pincherle p. 121 [fine reproduction, enlarged]; T. L. Naylor. The Trumpet and Trombone in Graphic Arts 1500-1800. Nashville 1979. no. 72; MGG vol. I, col. 982 [fuzzy reproduction]; The New Grove vol. 4, p. 644 [even fuzzier]; Musica calendar 1985: 24 February-9 March [fine reproduction]; more on card)
Concerts (with Orchestra): See also Allegory, Hearing.
House Concerts/Chamber Music/Rehearsals: [Ms Halle Stadtarchiv] Anon., mid-18th century. Scenes of Student Life from the Stammbuch of Paulus Serres. Halle Saale, Stadtarchiv. gouache miniature. Students around a table play clavichord, two violins, cello and coiled horn (bell up). (MgB IV/4, p. 137)
[Ms Hamburg MKG] Anon., ca. 1740. The Jena Collegium Musicum in Rehearsal, from a Stammbuch. Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Inv. Nr. E 1897.1532. water color on parchment. They have a considerable orchestra. About three coiled horns hang on the wall. (MgB IV/2, p. 45 [fine color reproduction]; The New Grove, vol. 4, p. 560 [adequate reproduction]; Early Music 16 [1988] 483)
[Ms Nuremberg GNM] Anon., ca. 1775. A Collegium Musicum Rehearsing a Cantata, from a Stammbuch. Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Sign. HB,26068. gouache(?) miniature. Two (?) coiled horns hang on the wall. (Lesure, pl. 8 [English version], pl. 9 [German version]; MgB IV/3, p. 81; Early Music 1 [1973] 136 [small, cropped reproduction]; Musica calendar 1985: 22 Sept. - 5 Oct [fine color])
[BI Zurich 1744] Anon. Musicale, from "Zurich Musicalische Neu-Jahrs-Geschenke." Zurich 1744. engraving. A little ensemble of harpsichord, several violins/violas, two cellos, two oboes and two 1-1/2 circle coiled horns. (M. Remnant. Musical Instruments of the West. London 1978. p. 210; The New Grove vol. 4, p. 632)
[Po (Frankenthal) private collection] German (Frankenthal), ca. 1765. Figure group. private collection. Figures play harp, lute and coiled horn. A bit reminiscent of the French, 18th century ensemble in Amiens. (H. Schmitz. Ole Olsens Kunstsamlinger, II. Munich n.d. no. 1623, pl. 63)
[Holzhalb-Schellenberg Pr] Johann Rudolf Holzhalb (1732-1806) after Johann Rudolf Schellenberg (1740-1806). "Concerto a cembalo obligato con stromenti." Publication of the Gesellschaft auf dem Musiksaal, Zurich 1777. engraving. A little ensemble of harpsichord, two violins, cello, two flutes and two 1-1/2 circle coiled horns (one held with the left hand, right hand on hip; the other held with the right hand, the left hand partly covering the bell). (MgB IV/2, p. 69 [fine reproduction]; Early Music 13 [1985] 31 [small reproduction])
[Wettstein Dr] Wettstein, Johann Rudolf (1719-1801). "L'attente du signal"/ Waiting for the Downbeat. (after 1792). drawing. private collection. A group of singers is accompanied by a motley ensemble of tromba marina, two flutes, two bassoons (?), cornetts (there seem to be four of them), and two 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horns (bells up, in opposite directions, one held and one played). (MGG vol. I, Taf. l/2 [rather small reproduction])
[Weyhe Sc] Weyhe, Bernard Heinrich (1701-1782). Table Centerpiece (1763-66). Munich BNM. silver. Includes two players of coiled horns on the stairs at the opposite ends of the piece. In the center there is an ensemble of keyboard, violin and flute, with a conductor. Above there are two trumpet players at one end and a kettle drummer on the other. Purchased by Fürstbischof Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen, Hildesheim, 1763-66. (Die Weltkunst 51 [1981] 2404 [color reproduction of the section with the musicians, two of the glass goblets have been removed so the horn player on the left is more fully visible, the best reproduction so far]; Apollo 112 (1980) Oct ad p. 176 [color reproduction of the center section]; Apollo 114 [1981] 72 [useless reproduction of the entire centerpiece]; Alte und moderne Kunst 26/H.177 (1980) 52 [minuscule reproduction of the entire centerpiece]; Die Weltkunst 50 [1981] 2737 [useless reproduction of the entire centerpiece], 3541 [no better]; sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Geneva, 12.XI.1980)
Interiors (not Church, Inn): [Kleiner Pr] Kleiner, Salomon. (1703?-1761). Interior of the Garden House on the Rhine of the former Schloss Favorite near Mainz, no. 12 of his "Prospect der innwendigen Gallerie dess Garten Gebäudes." Nuremberg GNm. drawing. Two liveried musicians serenade, duetting on coiled horns. It must have been very reverberant. (1969 catalog, Deutsche Handzeichnungen, IV. no. 182, p. 165. As ca. 1723/4. Notes engraving by Johann Georg Pinz [1697-1767])
Operatic and Theatrical Scenes: [Greipel Pa] Greipel, J. F. A Performance of Gluck's Opera "Il parnasso confuso," in Schloss Schönbrunn, 24.I.1765. Vienna, Schloss Schönbrünn. With orchestra. There are two coiled horns on a table beside the two trumpeters. They must double. (D. Altenburg. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Trompete im Zeitalter der Clarinblaskunst [1500-1800]. Regensburg 1973. vol. III, Abb. 28 [detail, fair reproduction]; W. Salmen. Bilder zur Geschichte der Musik in Österreich. Innsbruck 1979. p. 82)
Other: [Ms Anon. art market] Anon., 1763. A Student Room, from the Stammbuch of the Jena Student Moritz von Platen. Leipzig art market (1911). gouache (?) miniature. The items in the room include a cello, a trumpet, a coiled horn and timpani. (Warnecke sale, Boerner, Leipzig, 2.V.11)
[BI Schwäbisch Hall 1732] Anon. Title picture of J. F. B. C. Majer, Museum musicum. [Schwäbisch Hall], G. M. Majer, 1732. engraving. Among the many musical instruments hanging on the wall, there is a partly visible 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (MGG vol. 8, Taf. 80/1 [ok reproduction]) This engraving does not appear in the facsimile reprint, Kassel 1954.
[CI Zürich 1751] Anon. after David Herrliberger (1697-1777). The Celebration of the "Bücherzensur" in the Grossmünster, Zürich, 1751. engraving. The ceremony of giving books to the best students of the city. It is accompanied by an orchestra which includes two coiled horns. This was the first time musical instruments were allowed in the churches of Zürich since the Reformation. (F. Jakob. Der Orgelbau im Kanton Zürich. Bern 1971. Abb. 34)
[Holzhalb Pr] Holzhalb, Johann Rudolf (1732-1806). The Musiksaal of the [Zurich] Kollegium after the rebuilding of 1725 (1761). engraving. Includes a heap of musical instruments including two 1-1/2 circle coiled horns. The engraving is both ugly and very unimportant. (MgB IV/2, p. 43)
Angels: See also Allegory, Fame.
[organ Goslar-Frauenhof] Treutmann, Christoph (d. Ä) (builder). Organ (1734-37). Goslar-Frauhof, ehem. Augustinerchorherren-Stiftskirche. wood figures. Figures include two angels, on tops of the pedal towers, blowing coiled horns. (At the very top there is a putto playing kettledrums.) (H. Reuther. Land am Harz. Munich 1966. [Deutsche Land, Deutsche Kunst] pl. 18 [poor reproduction]; Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover, II/7: Landkreis Goslar. Hannover **. pl. 35) Famous organ.
[organ Grüssau] Engler, Michael (d.Ä) (builder), Anton Dorasil (1695-1759) Workshop (figures). Organ (1732-1736). Grüssau, Marienkirche. wood figures. Figures include two angels blowing coiled horns. (L. Burgemeister. Der Orgelbau in Schlesien. Strasbourg 1925. [SdK, 230] pl. XIX [poor reproduction]; G. Grundmann and W. Schadendorf. Schlesien. Berlin 1962. fig. 190 [useless for details]) One of the masterpieces of Silesian organ building.
[organ Haigerloch] Anon. Organ. Haigerloch, St. Annakirche. wood figures. Two angels, dramatically perched atop the pedal towers, have coiled horns. (K. T. Zingeler and W. F. Laur. Die Bau- und Kunst-Denkmäler in den Hohenzollern'schen Landen. Stuttgart 1896. opp. p. 104 [reproduction no good for details] Text gives no information about the organ. The church was built in 1755.)
[organ Prague] Helwig, J. (builder). Organ (1734-1738). Prague, Kostel Narozená Pán . wood figures. Includes at least one angel with a coiled horn. Here putti are the trumpeters and kettledrummer. (J. Diviš. Prazská Loreta. Prague 1972. fig. 112 [useless reproduction])
[organ Schwaz] Gaudenz Köck and C. Humpel (builders), Bartholomäus Alter (case), Gregor Fritz (angels). Organ. Schwaz, Pfarrkirche Unser Lieben Frauen Himmelfahrt. wood figures. Figures include two angels with coiled horns. (A. Forer. Orgeln in Österreich. Vienna 1973. no. 75, p. 185)
[organ Weingarten] Joseph Gabler (1700-1771) (builder). Organ (1737-1750). Weingarten (Württ.), Abteikirche. wood figures. Figures include two angels playing coiled horns. (G. Barthel. Barockkirchen in Altbayern, Schwaben und in der Schweiz. Berlin 1971. Abb. 21 [poor reproduction]; J. E. Blanton. The Organ in Church Design. Albany TX 1957. p. 326; W. Haacke. Orgeln in aller Welt. Königstein im Taunus 1965. p. 96 [n.g. for details]; _______. Orgeln. Königstein im Taunus n.d. p. 40; D. Poensgen. Der Bodensee. 3/Munich 1975. [Deutsche Lande, Deutsche Kunst] pl. 116 [poor reproduction])
[BI Paris 1770] Pierre Claude de La Gardette (1743/45-1782). First Design for the Organ of the Abteikirche, Weingarten, from Dom Bedos de Celles, L'art du facteur d'orgues. Paris 1770. vol. III, pl. LXXVII. engraving. Angels atop the pedal towers blow coiled horns. The only more prominent angel is the kettledrummer. They are even more prominent than the angels playing straight trumpets. (facsimile: Kassel 1965 [Documenta musicologica, 25]; MGG, vol. 4, Taf. 49; Early Music 1 [1973] 130)
[Anwander Fr] Anwander, Johann (1715-1770). Rejoicing Angels before the Throne of God after the Fall of Satan. Münnerstadt, Augustinerkirche. ceiling fresco. Angels include one playing a coiled horn and two with straight trumpets (one played, one held). (Die Kunstdenkmäler des Königreichs Bayern III/10: Kissingen. Munich 1914. pl. XVIII after p. 178)
[Hafner Fr] Hafner, Josef A. (op. ca. 1740-1755). Heaven and Earth Praise the Lord (1743). Kloster Weissenau. ceiling fresco. Among the several musical angels, one plays a coiled horn. (R. Schmidt. Kloster Weissenau Augsburg 1929. pl. 12 [useless reproduction])
[Knoller Fr] Knoller, Martin (1725-1804). The Assumption of the Virgin (1769). Ettal, Marienmünster, Presbyterium. cupola fresco. Among the several musical angels one blows a looped (almost 1-1/2 circle) horn. unimp. (P. S. Wellenhofer. Ettal. Ettal n.d. p. 60 [detail]; M. Seidel. Ad gloriam Dei. Neue Bilder vom Benediktinerkloster Ettal. Stuttgart [195-?], pl. 22)
[Knoller Fr] _______. Assumption of the Virgin (1773-74). ex Munich, Bürgersaal (destroyed in 1944). Among the several musical angels one blew a coiled horn. (N. Lieb and H. J. Sauermost. Münchens Kirchen. Munich 1973. p. 132 [poor reproduction])
Animals: [Wsc Vienna ÖNV] S. Tirolean (Gröden), 18th century. Poodle. Vienna, Oesterreichisches Museum für Volkskunde. wood. It plays a coiled horn. (exh 1960: Südtiroler Volkskunst. fig. 17 [fair reproduction])
Fools: [Po (Meissen) art market] German Meissen (painted decoration by Ferdinand Meyer, Pressnitz), ca. 1740. The Hofnarr Fröhlich on a Rearing Horse. Munich art market (1983). porcelain plate. He plays a coiled horn. Ouch! (Die Weltkunst 53 [1983] 347 [small color reproduction, fair])
Fountain Figures: See also Putti.
Musicians, Minstrels, etc.: See also Allegory, Elements.
[Dolls Arnstadt] Anon., ca. 1740. Three Horn Players. Arnstadt, Schlossmuseum. dolls. They play 2-1/2 circle coiled horns. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. p. 191 [ok reproduction])
[Po (Vienna) Prague] Austrian (Vienna), 18th century. Hornist. Prague, Museum of Industrial Arts. porcelain figure. He plays a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 131; Buchner no. 174)
[Po (Fulda) Munich BNM] German (Fulda), ca. 1770. Two Youths playingcoiled horns.. Munich BNM. a pair of porcelain figures. One plays hand horn style, the other holds the horn with his left hand, his music with his right. (F. H. Hofmann. Das europäische Porzellan des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums. Munich 1908. nos. 954, 955)
[Po (Fulda) no location] German (Fulda), after 1770. Hornist. no location. porcelain figure. He plays a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 148 [fine reproduction, no location])
[Po (Fulda) art market] _______. ca. 1783. Hornist. Munich art market (1986). porcelain figure. He plays a 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn (not hand horn technique) (hat with flowers on the brim, leafy branch by his feet). (Die Weltkunst 56 [1986) 2983)
[Po (Hoechst) Würzburg MfM] German (Hoechst), 18th century. Boy, dressed as a Turk, playing a Horn. Würzburg, Mainfränkisches Museum. porcelain figure. He blows a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. unimp. There are two of them, one with right arm bent, hair on forehead curling upward the other with right arm straight out, hair on forehead curling downward. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 136)
[Po (Limbach) Leipzig Mkhw] German (Limbach), 18th century. Horn Player. Leipzig, Museum des Kunsthandwerks. porcelain figure. Plays a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn (hand on hip). unimp. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 131)
[Po (Ludwigsburg] Stuttgart WLM] German (Ludwigsburg, model by J. C. W. Beyer), ca. 1765. Horn Player. Stuttgart, WLM. porcelain figure. He seems to be resting in an inn. He plays his 2-1/2 circle coiled horn out of the side of his mouth while reading from a scrap of music held in his hand. There is other music on a little table beside him and on the floor. He has his foot on an overturned, small kettledrum. Another leans against his chair. (Early Music 11 [1983] 261, as 1765-66; Die Weltkunst 52 [1982] 3464, as ca. 1765.) Another: Basel, Kirschgartenmuseum (Coll. Drs. Emil and Erika Pauls). (Apollo 104 [1976) 489 [fair reproduction]) Another: Coll. Ole Olsen. (Kunst i privat Eje. Copenhagen 1944. no. 127, p. 52; H. Schmitz. Ole Olsens Kunstsamlinger, II. Munich n.d. no. 1639, pl. 65) Another? (no location) (Connoisseur 133 [1954] 195 [fair reproduction], as ca. 1766)
[Po (Ludwigsburg) art market] German (Ludwigsburg, model by Joseph Nees [doc.1759-1775], painted by Johann Friedrich Steinkopf [1737-1825]), ca. 1765. A Lady playing a Horn. ** art market (I forgot to record where) porcelain figure. She sits beside a little table, apparently holding a little music book with her lef