Musical Instruments in Western European Art
An Iconographical Guide
The Tambourine -- 16th-17th centuries

[NL] DUTCH ARTISTS

I: Old Testament

Triumph of David: [Tengnagel Dr] Tengnagel, Jan (1584-1635). Triumph of David. Leiden, Prentenkabinett. drawing. A group of Welcoming Women includes three singers and players of lyre and tambourine. In another group a woman plays a frame drum; and in yet another, two women play wind instruments (one straight, one curved). There is perhaps one more group, with music, in the background. (exh Sacramento, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1974: The Pre-Rembrandtists. p. 24 [not exh])

Jephthah: [Tengnagel Dr] Tengnagel, Jan (1584-1635). The Return of Jephthah. London art market (1973). In the daughter's retinue, a woman plays a tambourine (perhaps more). (exh Sacramento, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1974: The Pre-Rembrandtists. p. not recorded [miserable reproduction] [not exh]; sale, Christie's 11.VII.1973)

[Tengnagel Pa] _______. The Return of Jephthah. London art market (1954). In the daughter's retinue women sing and play violin, lute, jingle ring, tambourine and triangle. (Oud-Holland 88 [1971] 64)

[Velde Pa] Velde, Esaias van de (1587-1630). The Return of Jephthah (1625). London art market (1964). The Welcoming Women play lyre, pipe and tabor and tambourine. (sale, Sotheby's, 6.V.1964, lot 150; G. S. Keyes. Esaias van de Velde. Doornspijk 1984. cat. no. 5, pl. 342 [fine reproduction])

Other: [Lastman Pa] Lastman, Pieter (1583-1633). David Playing the Harp in the Temple (1618). Braunschweig HAUM. Includes a musician playing a tambourine. (Bernt II, pl. 664 [poor reproduction]; Kinsky p. 177 [detail -- small, rather fuzzy reproduction]; Komma p. 112 [detail, small but fairly clear]; J. M. Nash. The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer ... New York 1972. pl. 3 [ok reproduction]; Imago musicale I [1984] 83; Vis. Coll. 374.L332.12D)

[Moeyaert Pa] Moeyaert, Claes Cornelisz (1591/93-1655). The Triumph of Mordecai (1652). London art market (1936). Includes a woman playing a tambourine. (sale, Christie's, London, 17.IV.1936, no. 61; Oud-Holland 88 [1974] 32)

II: New Testament

Other: [Lastman Pa] Lastman, Pieter (1583-1633). Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (Acts 14) (1617). Amsterdam, Amsterdams Historisch Museum. Musicians play lyre, double woodwind and tambourine (?). (B. Haak. The Golden Age ... New York 1984. p. 192)

[Pynas Pa] Pynas, Jacob (ca.1585-p.1650). Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (Acts 14). New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Includes a negro/black musician playing a tambourine. (B. Haak. The Golden Age ... New York 1984. p. 193 [small reproduction])

V: Mythology

Bacchanals: [Moeyaert Pa] Moeyaert, Claes Cornelisz (1591/93-1655). The Triumph of Bacchus (1624). The Hague, Mauritshuis. Includes a satyress playing a tambourine. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 90 [fair reproduction], as by Nicolas Moeyaert; Oud-Holland 88 [1974] 78)

[Uyttenbroeck Pa] Uyttenbroeck, Moses van (ca.1590-1648). Bacchanale (1627). Braunschweig HAUM, no. 216. A bacchant plays cymbals, and a bacchante plays a tambourine. There are probably more musicians in the background. (Bernt III, pl. 1206 [fair reproduction]; B. Haak. The Golden Age ... New York 1984. p.35 [fine color reproduction])

[Vertangen Pa] Vertangen, Daniel (ca.1598-before 1684). Landscape with Nymphs. Braunschweig HAUM, no. 194. Figures include a bacchante playing a tambourine. (Bernt III, pl. 1296)

Muses: [Vianen Me] Vianen, Paulus van (ca.1570/72-1613). Minerva and the Muses (1604). Amsterdam RM. low relief metal plaque. One of the Muses plays a tambourine. (G. van den Osten and H. Vey. Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands 1500-1600. Baltimore 1969. no. 292)

Other: [Spranger-Goltzius Pr] Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-1611) after Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). The Wedding of Amor and Psyche (1587). engraving. Apollo and the Muses entertain. A putto on a cloud plays a tambourine. (IB vol. 3, no. 277, p. 244; B. Haak. The Golden Age ... New York 1984. p. 168 [small reproduction]; W. L. Strauss. Hendrick Goltzius, the Complete Engravings and Woodcuts. New York 1977. no. 255; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 151) The drawing for this, without Apollo and his violin: Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet. (W. L. Strauss. Hendrick Goltzius, the Complete Engravings and Woodcuts. New York 1977. no. 255; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 150)

[Uyttenbroeck Pa] Uyttenbroeck, Moses van (ca.1590-1648). Juno, Argus and Io. private collection (ex Butôt Coll.) Juno (naked), astride Io and leaning on Argus, plays a tambourine. (There is also a dancing satyr playing a woodwind instrument.) Different, at least. (K. J. Müllenmeister. Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts, III. Bremen 1981. no. 461)

VI: Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures

[Bloemaert Pa] Bloemaert, Abraham (1564-1651). The Wedding of Amarillis and Mirtillo, from Giovanni Battista Guarini, Il Pastor Fido (V, 10). Berlin, Jagdschloss Grünewald. Female dancers play tambourine and triangle. (A. McN. Kettering. The Dutch Arcadia ... Montclair NJ 1983, fig. 162, with date 1635, from the Pastor Fido cycle at Honselaardijk; Apollo 110 [1979] 472; Oud-Holland 92 [1978] 244; Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 30 [1967] 173)

[Poelenburgh Pa] Poelenburgh, Cornelis van (1586/ca.1595-1667). Amarillis Crowning Mirtillo, from Giovanni Battista Guarini, Il Pastor Fido (II, 2). Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Women play cymbals (?), tambourine and triangle. (A. McN. Kettering. The Dutch Arcadia ... Montclair NJ 1983. fig. 157, with date 1635, from the Pastor Fido cycle at Honselaardijk. From Act 2, scene 2; Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 30 [1967] 170)

[Poelenburgh Pa] _______. Amarillis Crowning Mirtillo, from Giovanni Battista Guarini, Il Pastor Fido (1635). Bremen KH. Women play tambourine (dancing) and triangle. unimp. (A. McN. Kettering. The Dutch Arcadia ... Montclair NJ 1983. fig. 165)

XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor

Pastorales: [Honthorst Pa] Honthorst, Gerrit van (1590-1656). Three Rustic Women Making Music (1629). Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Kunst. One plays a tambourine and two sing. (J. Jahn. Museum der bildenden Kunst Leipzig. Leipzig 1961. pl. 35; A. McN. Kettering. The Dutch Arcadia ... Montclair NJ 1983. fig. 127)

XIV: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor

Inn Interiors: [Laer Pa] Laer, Pieter van (ca.1592-p.1642). Carnival Dance in a Cellar Tavern. Augsburg, Staatsgalerie (deposit from Munich AP). Two revellers dance, one (a man) with a tambourine. (Bernt II, pl. 653 [fair reproduction]; G. Briganti et al. The Bamboccianti ... Rome 1983. p. 73 [ok color reproduction]; Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 125 [after Briganti et al], as painted in Rome, ca. 1637-38)

Parties/Music Parties: [D Hals Pa] Hals, Dirk (1591-1656). Merry Company. Stockholm NM. A brothel? Men play violin and tambourine, a woman plays a flute. (S. Slive. Frans Hals. London 1970. vol. I, p. 98. Of this he says [p. 96]: "one of the paintings by Dirck which suggests that Frans could not have been excessively proud of all of his brother's efforts.")

[D Hals Pa] _______. Party (1634). Lucerne art market (1973). Figures play violin, flute and tambourine. Similar to the painting in Stockholm. There the musicians are toward the left in the composition and the tambourine player is at the right of the group. Here the musicians are in the middle of the composition and the tambourine player is at the left of the group. (sale Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 13-17.XI.1973; Burlington 115 [1973] Nov. ad p. clvii [useless reproduction]; =? von Nemes sale, Helbing, Munich, 2-3.XI.1933)

XV: Miscellaneous Figures

Comedians, Clowns: See also Musicians (Duyster Pa).

Musicians (amateur and professional): [Bor Pa] Bor, Paulus (doc. 1628-m.1669) and Pieter Fransz. de Grebber (ca.1600-1652/3). Trompe l'oeil figures (1638). ex Honselaersdijk, grote bovenzaal, frieze around the base of the ceiling (lost/destroyed). In one group a man plays a small, long-necked lute and a woman plays a tambourine. (Oud-Holland 84 [1969] 278-79)

[Duyster Pa] Duyster, Willem Cornelisz (1598/99-1635). Carnival Revellers. Berlin SMPK. One plays a lute, and two (?) play tambourines. unimp. (exh Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, 1967: La vie en Holland au XVIIe siècle. no. 114, pl. 44)

Putti: See also Mythology, Other.

[B] FLEMISH ARTISTS

I: Old Testament

David: [Rubens Dr] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). King David Kneeling. St. Petersburg, Hermitage. drawing. King David plays a harp. A tambourine is among the many musical instruments beside him. There are also musical angels. ( 3 [1949] pl. 4)

Triumph of David: [BI Antwerp 1595] Adriaen Collaert (ca.1560-1618) after Johannes Stradanus (1523-1605). The Return of David with the Head of Goliath, from Encomium musices. Antwerp, P. Galle, 1595. no. 7. engraving. Several musical Welcoming Women, including one with a tambourine or jingle ring. (C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Catalog no. 46 [1967] no. 63, pl. XV [awful reproduction]; facsimile: Cambridge 1943 [The Harrow Replicas, 6])

[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). The Triumph of David. Mainz, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum. Several musical Welcoming Women, including one with a tambourine. (1997 catalog, p. 179; Härting Francken. no. 11, p. 230, as 1630's)

[Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640), attr. The Triumph of David/David Victorious over Goliath, Welcomed to Jerusalem. Ft. Worth TX, the Kimbell Foundation. The Welcoming Women sing and play viol, lute (tuning?), cornett (?) and tambourine. (Held cat. A21, fig. 490 [ok reproduction], as Flemish painter of the Rubens period; Burlington 111 [1969] 539 [ok reproduction]) A poor copy exh Guadalajara, Mexico, 1942: Arte religioso en Guadalajara. no.87, pl. 39 (poor reproduction).

Jephthah: [F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). The Return of Jephthah. private collection. One of the Welcoming Wome plays a tambourine. (Härting Francken. no. 10, p. 230 [small reproduction], as 1615-1620)

Miriam/Crossing the Red Sea: [BI Antwerp 1595] Adriaen Collaert (ca.1560-1618) after Jan van der Straet (Stradanus) (1523-1605). Miriam's Song, from Encomium musices. Antwerp, P. Galle, 1595. no. 4. engraving. Many musical figures. One of the rejoicing women dances and plays a jingle ring. (facsimile: Cambridge 1943 [The Harrow Replicas, 6])

[Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640), attr. Moses, Aaron and Miriam Celebrate the Crossing of the Red Sea. Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle. Women sing (?) and play lute and shawm. Three dance, with two of the dancers playing tambourine and jingle ring. (Held cat. A19, fig. 489, as a Flemish painter of Rubens' period; Burlington 111 [1969] 539 [ok reproduction])

Other: [BI Antwerp 1595] Adriaen Collaert (ca.1550-1618) after Jan van der Straet (Johannes Stradanus) (1523-1605). Saul among the Prophets (I Samuel, 16, 23), from Encomivm mvsices. Antwerp, Phiips Galle, 1595. no. 5. engraving. Includes a group of musicians, including a player of a tambourine (JJ). (facsimile: Cambridge 1943 [The Harrow Replicas, 6])

[BI Antwerp 1595] _______. Solomon Taking the Ark of the Covenant into the Temple (II Chronicles, 5, 4-6). no. 9. The numerous musicians include a tambourine player. (facsimile: Cambridge 1943)

[BI Antwerp 1595] _______. The Sacrifice of King Asa (II Chronicles 15, 10-15). no. 11. Includes two tambourine (one JJ/B, the other BBB/J/BBB/JJ) players. (facsimile: Cambridge 1943)

[BI Antwerp 1595] _______. The Coronation of King Joas (II Chronicles, 23, 11). no. 12. Includes a child in the right foreground playing a tambourine (JJ). (facsimile: Cambridge 1943)

[BI Antwerp 1595] _______. Judith's Triumph (Judith [Apocrypha] 15, 9-11 and 13). no. 14. Includes three tambourine players. One of them, a man, dances as he plays. (facsimile: Cambridge 1943)

[BI Antwerp 1595] _______. The Rededication of the Temple by Simon Maccabaeus (I Maccabaeus [Apocrypha] 13, 49-51). no. 15. Includes two tambourine players (JJ). (facsimile: Cambridge 1943)

II: New Testament

Other: [Jordaens Pa] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Saints Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. Louisville KY, The J. B. Speed Art Museum. oil sketch. Includes a woman playing a tambourine. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 71 [February 1968] La chronique des arts no. 1189, p. 57)

[Jordaens Dr] _______. Saints Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. location unknown. drawing. Includes a woman playing a tambourine or shallow frame drum (no jingles). (d'Hulst 1974. cat. A308, pl. 325)

[Jordaens Copy Dr] _______, Copy. Saints Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. New York Metropolitan. drawing. A bare-bosomed woman plays a woodwind instrument (held in her left hand) and a tambourine (held in her right hand). (d'Hulst 1974. cat. C64, pl. 540)

V: Mythology

Bacchanals: [Balen Pa] Balen, Hendrik van (1575-1632). The Cortège of Bacchus. no location. One of the bacchantes plays a tambourine and a putto holds a tambourine. (Leppert Theme pl. LXXXIV)

[Dijck Pa] Dijck, Anthonie van (1599-1641). Drunken Silenus. Brussels MRBA inv. 217. Three figures, including a bacchante holding a tambourine. unimp. (exh Brussels MRBA, 1965: Le siècle de Rubens. no. 58, p. 60 [2d ed])

[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Triumph of Bacchus and Silenus. London art market (1990). Includes a woman playing a jingle ring (JJ/JJ?) and another playing a sort of shallow drum (tambourine without jingles). (Burlington 132 [1990] October ad p. xv [[fine color reproduction])

[F II Francken Pa] _______. Triumph of Bacchus. The Hague art market (1952). Includes two women with tambourines. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 312, p. 331, as ca.1620)

[Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Triumph of Bacchus. Brno, Moravian Museum. drawing. Perhaps includes a figure playing a tambourine. very unimp. (d'Hulst 1974. cat. A247, pl. 262 [ok reproduction], as ca.1645-50)

[Jordaens Dr] _______. Triumph of Bacchus. Frankfurt am Main SKI. drawing. Includes two figures (one a woman, the other a negro man) playing two tambourines or jingle rings (just the hoops, no jingles). (d'Hulst 1974. cat. A231, pl. 246, as consideraby reworked by an unknown hand)

[Jordaens Dr] _______. Bacchanal. Frankfurt am Main SKI. Includes satyrs playing panpipes and a tambourine or jingle ring. very unimp. (d'Hulst 1974. no. A335, pl. 32, as ca.1655-60)

[Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Triumph of Bacchus, for the decoration of the Torre de la Parada. Rotterdam BvB. oil sketch. Includes a woman playing a jingle ring and a satyr playing a tambourine. (Held cat. 175, fig. 184, as 1636)

[Rubens-Panneels Pr] Willem Panneels (a.1600-p.1632/30) after Peter Paul Rubens. Drunken Bacchus Supported by a Faun and a Satyr. engraving. A mostly nude woman dances to her tambourine. (Hollstein [Dutch] XV, no. 28, p. 123)

[Rubens-Soutman Pr] Pieter Claesz Soutman (ca.1580-1657) after Peter Paul Rubens. Satyrs and Drunken Silenus. engraving. A black woman holds a jingle ring (JJ). (R. Lamb and E. G. Mittelberger. In Celebration of Wine and Life. New York 1974. p. 68 [ok reproduction])

Diana: See also Other.

Gods, Feast of the: [Stalbemt Pa] Stalbemt, Adriaen van (1580-1662). The Gods Feasting in a Forest (1622). Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. Bacchantes in the background dance and play the tambourine. (very) unimp. (Bernt III, no. 1104 [poor reproduction]; Burlington 115 [1973] 304 [poor reproduction]; Oud-Holland 96 [1981] 6)

Muses: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Processions.

[Pa Brussels MIC] Flemish, early 17th century (after a painting by Maartin de Vos [Brussels MBA]). Apollo and the Muses. Brussels, Musée Instrumental du Conservatoire, no. 2935. painting on the lid of a cembalo cum octave spinet of Johannes Ruckers (Antwerp 1619). One of the Muses plays a tambourine or jingle ring (in the Vos painting it's a tambourine). (MGG VII, Taf. 45 [photo of the instrument])

[Pa Paris Musique] [Flemish, late-16th - early 17th century?] Minerva Vsiting the Muses. Paris, musée de la Musique. painting on the lid of a harpsichord. One of the Muses plays a tambourine. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 146 [small reproduction])

[Balen Pa] Balen, Hendrik van (1575-1632) and Josse II de Momper (1564-1635). Minerva Visiting the Muses. Antwerp KMSK cat. 957. One of the Muses has a tambourine. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek[1961] 142)

[Clerck Pa] Clerck, Hendrik de (ca.1570-ca.1629). Minerva and the Muses. Cologne art market (1929). One of the Muses has a tambourine. (Loewe sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 5-6.XI.1929 [fair reproduction])

[Clerck Pa] _______. Minerva Visiting the Muses. private collection. One of the Muses has a tambourine. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 142 [poor reproduction])

Nymphs: [Dr Cologne WRM] Flemish?, early 17th century?. Triumph of Silenus. Cologne WRM. drawing. Includes a nymph playing a tambourine (bare suggestion, no jingles). very unimp. (D'Hulst 1974. cat. D13, pl. 608 [rejected attribution])

Satyrs: [Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Diana Resting, with Nymphs, Satyrs and Booty. Chantilly, Musée Condé. drawing. Includes a satyr child holding a tiny woodwind in its right hand while waving a jingle ring (? no jingles) in its left. unimp. (d'Hulst 1974. cat. A25, pl. 267) Copy (Rotterdam BvB) (d'Hulst 1974. cat. C51, pl. 528)

[Jordaens Dr] _______. The Infant Jupiter suckled by the Goat Amalthea. St. Petersburg Hermitage. drawing. Includes a satyr playing a tambourine. (d'Hulst 1974. no. A139, pl. 152, as ca.1640)

[Jordaens Copy Dr] _______, Copy. Silenus on a Donkey, with Two Satyrs. Rotterdam BvB. drawing. One or both of the satyrs play tambourines. (d'Hulst 1974. cat. C70, pl. 548, as a fragmentary copy by an unknown hand, after the Triumph of Bacchus, ca.1650-55, in Brussels [see Bacchanals, above])

Other: [Pa Paris Musique] [Flemish, late-16th - early 17th century?] Dance of the Followers of Diana. Paris, musée de la Musique. painting on the lid of a harpsichord. The dancers are accompanied by a woman playing a tambourine. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 147)

[Bril Pa] Bril, Paul (1554-1626). Landscape with Mythological Figures. Paris art market (1957). Two women play tambourines and a satyr pipes. (Burlington 99 [1957] May ad p. xxiv [poor reproduction])

[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Dance of Nymphs and Cupids. Florence, Uffizi. One of the Cupids plays a tambourine. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 155 [fair reproduction])

[Jordaens Pa] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Jupiter Nourished by the Goat Amalthea. Antwerp KMSK. A bacchante may play a tambourine. unimp. (A. Pigler. Barockthemen ... Budapest 1956. vol. II, p. 131 [fair reproduction])

[Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). The Three Graces Dancing. London, Dulwich College Picture Gallery. oil sketch. One of the dancing Graces has a jingle ring. (Held cat. 239, fig. 249, as ca.1625-28)

[Rubens School Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640), School. Feast of Venus. Vienna KH, cat. 830. Includes a bacchante dancing to her small jingle ring. Panpipes on the ground. Lusty. (E. Knab. Daniel Gran. Vienna 1977. fig. 32 [poor reproduction]; Leppert Theme no. 522 [not illustrated], as 1630-37, says there are three tambourines; A. Stix. Meisterwerke aus Oesterreich ... Zurich 1949. no. 96; Art Bulletin 74 [1992] 230 [detail]; Connoisseur 114 [1972] 158 [poor reproduction])

VII: Allegory

Hearing (Five Senses): [Finson Pa] Finson (Finsonius), Ludovicus (1580-1617). Merry Company/The Five Senses. Braunschweig HAUM, inv. no. 37. Includes women playing chitarrone and tambourine (J/BB). (exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica ... p. 107 [not exhibited]; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica p. 101 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Cremona 1996-97: Immagine del sentire ... Ed. S. Ferino-Pagden. p. 41 [rather small color reproduction, not exhibited]; H. Kauffmann. "Die Fünfsinne in der niederländischen Malerei des 17.Jahrhunderts." In: H. Tintelnot, ed. Kunstgeschichtliche Studien [FS Dagobert Frey]. Breslau 1943. pp. 133-157. This repr. Abb. 29; Nicolson Caravaggism pl. 937 [fair reproduction]; exh Braunschweig HAUM, 1978: Die Sprache der Bilder. no. 10, p. 66, dates as shortly after 1600; exh Utrecht, Braunschweig 1986-87: Nieuw licht op de Gouden Eeuw: Hendrick ter Brugghen en tijdgenoten. Ed. A. Blankert and L. J. Slatkes. no. 56, p. 262 [fine reproduction]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek [1965] 122)

Planets: [Pa Amsterdam RM] Flemish, first half, 17th century. The Children of the Planet Mercury. Amsterdam RM. Among the many musical instruments tumbling from Mercury's chariot is a tambourine. (Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 21)

Triumph/Victory: [Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Triumph of Henry IV. Bayonne, Musée Bonnat. oil sketch. Heralds play two (?) cornui and three (?) straight trumpets. A man plays a tambourine. (Held cat. 84, fig. 87, as 1630)

War and Peace: [Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Allegory of Peace and War/Minerva Protects Pax from Mars. London NG. Figures include a dancing woman with a jingle ring and castanets. (1937 catalog, Continental Schools, no. 46, p. 303 [poor reproduction]; Art History 12 [1989] 27 [ok reproduction]; Connoisseur 120 [1947] 123)

XII: Decorative Elements

[BI Antwerp 1595] Adriaen Collaert (ca.1560-1618) after Johannes Stradanus (Jan ven der Straet) (1532-1605). Allegorical Title Page with a Composition (the motet Nata et grata) by J. Pevernage, from Encomium musices. Antwerp, P. Galle, 1595. engraving. Decorated with an enormous number of musical instruments, including a tambourine. (Komma p. 112 [fuzzy reproduction]; MGG I, Taf. XXII/3 [very small reproduction]; facsimile: Cambridge 1943 [The Harrow Replicas, 6])

XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor

Carnival: [Miel Pa] Miel, Jan (1599-1664). Carnival in the Piazza Colonna in Rome. Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum. Includes barely visible figures playing a colascione and a tambourine. (G. Briganti et al. The Bamboccianti ... Rome 1983. pp. 117-121; exh Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984: Masters of Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting. cat. no. 73, pl. 46 [color reproduction, useless], as ca.1645; Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 124 [fair detail] [after Briganti et al]; Vis. Coll. 374.1.M583.90[f]

[Miel Pa] _______. Carnival. Munich AP. Includes dancing revellers playing a colascione (man) and a tambourine (woman). (G. Briganti et al. The Bamboccianti ... Rome 1983. p. 116 [fair reproduction])

Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees/Parades: [Alsloot Pa] Alsloot, Denis van (1570-1628). Ommegang at Brussels, 31 May 1615: The Triumph of Archduchess Isaballa in the Grand' Place (1616). London V & A inv. 5928-1859. Includes a procession float with Apollo and the Muses, one of whom plays a tambourine. The "Muses" are amusingly masculine. (J. Laver. Isabella's Triumph. London, The Faber Gallery, 1947. opp. p. 22 [color detail of the float with the Muses]; Leppert Theme, pll. XLVIII, XLIX [detail]; The New Grove III, p. 395 [ok detail]; Early Music 3 [1975] July front and back covers [fine color detail], p. 327 [whole, minuscule reproduction])

Village/Rustic Scenes: [Miel Pa] Miel, Jan (1599-1664). Mascherata Beside an Inn. Vienna, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Gemäldegalerie, inv. 1372. A comedian plays a guitar and a woman plays a tambourine as a couple dances. (G. Briganti et al. The Bamboccianti ... Rome 1983. p. 122; MgB IV/4, no. 86, p. 115; Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 122 [fair reproduction] [after Briganti et al])

XV: Miscellaneous Figures

Angels: [BI Antwerp 1595] Adriaen Collaert (ca.1560-1618) after Johannes Stradanus (1532-1605). The Creation/Angel Concert. Antwerp, P. Galle, 1595. engraving. Many musical angels. One of the smaller ones plays a tambourine. (facsimile: Cambridge 1943 [The Harrow Replicas, 6]; Musica calendar 1982: 30 May - 12 June)

[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Allegory of "Pictura sacra." Budapest SM. In an atelier, angels floating above on an indoor cloud play several musical instruments, including a tambourine. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 361, p. 87, as ca.1616-20)

Musicians (amateur and professional): See also Allegory, Hearing.

[Pa private collection] Flemish, [first half?] 17th century. Outdoor Scene/Promenaders in an Imaginary Landscape. Bologna, Cassa di Risparmio. Includes men playing guitar and tambourine and a woman who probably sings. There is a man in the pose of a violinist, but no violin. hmmm. (Le Collezione d'arte della Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna. I dipinti. Ed. A. Emiliani. Bologna 1972. vol. I, Tav. 20, 21 [detail])

Putti: See also Mythology, Bacchanals; Mythology, Other.

[F] FRENCH ARTISTS

I: Old Testament

David, Triumph of: [Tournier Pa] Tournier, Nicolas (1590-p.1657). Triumph of David. London art market (1920). Only two figures: David with the head of Goliath and a woman brandishing a jingle ring (JJ). This is very similar to a painting attr. Bartolo Manfredi (Paris, Louvre). See below. (Nicolson Caravaggism pl. 611 [fair reproduction])

Jephthah: [Ta Paris Musée des Gobelins] French (Paris, atelier du Louvre, cartoon by Simon Vouet), first half, 17th century. The Daughter of Jephthah. Paris, Musée des Gobelins. tapestry. One of the figures in the daughter's retinue plays a tambourine. (C. Mauricheau-Beaupré. L'art au XVIIe siècle en France. Ière periode, 1594-1661. Paris 1946. no.181 [useless reproduction]; J. Niclausse. Le Musée des Gobelins, 1938: notices critiques. Paris 1938. no. 28, pl. XIII)

Other: [Poussin Pa] Poussin, Nicolas (1593/4-1665). The Worship of the Golden Calf. private collection. There is a jingle ring leaning against a rock in the left foreground. (French Art. An Illustrated Souvenir of the Exhibition of French Art at the Royal Academy of Art, London.London 1932. p. 20; Revue du Louvre 10 [1960] 53)

[Stella Pa] Stella, Jacques (1596-1657). Solomon Worshipping Idols. Lyons MBA. Rejoicing women in the foreground play cymbals, jingle ring, nakers, sistrum and tambourine. Men in the background play three curved horns/trumpets. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 123 [March 1994] La chronique des arts no. 1502, p. 9 [small reproduction])

II: New Testament

Herod, Feast of: [Leclerc Pa] Leclerc, Jean (1587/88-1633). Salome bringing the Head of St. John the Baptist to Herod and Herodias. Chaumont, Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Includes a woman paying a tambourine (JJJ). (Nicolson Caravaggism pl. 804 [fair reproduction])

V: Mythology

Bacchanals: [Brebiette Pr] Brebiette, Pierre (1598-1650). The Arrival of Bacchus. etching. Includes a putto beating a tambourine (or small frame drum with bells on its rim) with a stick. (R. Lamb and E. G. Mittelberger. In Celebration of Wine and Life. New York 1974. p. 63)

[La Hire Pa] La Hire (La Hyre), Etienne de (1583-1643). The Cabinet d'amateur of Prince Vladislaus Sigismundus Vasa, Future King Vladislaus IV of Poland. private collection. Includes, prominently, a painting of a Bacchanl (Rubens?). A bacchante plays a tambourine. unimp. (Burlington 123 [1981] 496, with reference to exh P. and D. Colnaghi, London, 1981: Objects for a "Wunderkammer."; Die Weltkunst51 [1981] 2089 [fair reproduction])

[Poussin Pa] Poussin, Nicolas (1593/4-1665). Triumph of Bacchus. Kansas City, Nelson-Rockhill Gallery of Art. Includes a bacchante playing a tambourine, a satyr with panpipes and a bacchant blowing a folded trumpet with an animal head (?) bell. (C. Wright. Poussin. Paintings. A Catalogue Raisonné. New York 1985. cat. no. 81, p. 57 [color reproduction]. Considers doubts about authenticity unjustified.; 1959 Handbook of the Collections, p. 105) Cf. similar figures (bacchante plays a jingle ring) in The Triumph of Bacchus. Rouen MBA. (A. Blunt. The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin. London 1966. no. 137, copy 7 [minuscule reproduction], as attr. Jacques Stella; Poussin CR, Paris 1958. vol. I, opp. p. 31 [ok reproduction], p. 32: "Copie ancienne conservé ... sous le nom de Stella.")

[Poussin Pa] _______. The Triumph of Pan. London NG. Includes a dancing bacchante playing a (BB) and a jingle ring (JJJ?) on the ground in the center foreground. (C. Wright. Poussin. Paintings. A Catalogue Raisonné. New York 1985. cat. 82, p. 56 [fair color reproduction]; Burlington 137 [1995] 8; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 101 [March 1983] La Chronique des artsno. 1370, p. 50; exh Brussels, Exposition d'art ancien, 1935: Cinq siècles d'art Bruxellois. Sections etrangères. Ed. P. Lambotte. Brussels n.d. pl. 8; [Coll. Morrison] (Revue du Louvre 10 [1960] 56).

[Poussin Pa] _______. Bacchus and Ariadne. Madrid Prado. A bacchant plays a straight trumpet and dancing bacchantes play cymbals and tambourine. (Wright 1985. cat. 15, p. 135 [fair reproduction])

[Poussin Pa] _______, after. The Triumph of Silenus. London NG. Includes a sort of jingle ring on the ground in the left foreground (a flat ring with four pellet bells). (Connoisseur 126 [1950] 180 [poor reproduction])

Muses (unidentified): See also Allegory, Elements (Earth).

[BI Lyons 1581] Anon. The Nine Muses, from V. Cartari, Imagini de i dei. Lyons 1581. woodcut. One of the Muses holds a tambourine. (M. von Platen, ed. Queen Christina of Sweden: Documents and Studies. Stockholm 1966. p. 338)

[BI Paris 1609] Anon. (del Bene?). The Five Arches leading to Aristotle's Città del anima, from Bartolomeo del Bene, Civitas veri sive morum. Paris, Apud Ambrosium et Hieronymum Drouart ... 1609. engraving. "LVDIRE," is topped with Apollo and the Muses, one of whom has a tambourine. (exh Cremona, 1996-97: Immagini del sentire ... Ed. S. Ferino-Pagden. no. II.2, p. 82)

[M Courteys En] Courteys, Martial (doc. 1579-80). Apollo and the Muses. London, Wallace Collection. enamel dish. One of the Muses has a tambourine. (1904 catalog. Ed. A. L. Baldry. p. 279)

[Deruet Pa] Deruet, Claude (ca. 1588-1660). Triumph of Anne of Austria. Stockholm, Drottningholm, Theater Museum. Anne of Austria was the mother of Louis XIV. Includes a wagon-load of Muses, one of whom plays a tambourine. Another version in Orléans MBA. (Mirimonde Iconographie musicale. vol. I, fig. 31)

Muses (Erato): [Vouet Pa] Vouet, Simon (1590-1649). Erato, Muse of Poetry. She delicately holds up a jingle ring (J/B). There are also several partly visible, unplayed musical instruments. (Burlington 132 [1990] November ad p. xxxii)

Tritons/Sea Creatures: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Processions.

Other: [Lorrain Pa] Lorrain, Nicolas François (de Bar) (doc. 1627). The Rape of Europa. Paris art market (1961). Includes a female figure with a tambourine. unimp. (sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 11.XII.1961, lot 47)

[Perrier Pa] Perrier, François (1594-1649). Hercules and Omphale. New York art market (1995). Hercules strums a tambourine as a cupid removes (?) his sandals. A woman holds a lyre and another woman dances to clapper sticks. (Burlington 137 [1995] May ad p. vii [fine color reproduction])

VII: Allegory

Elements (Earth): [Deruet Pa] Deruet, Claude (ca.1588-1660). Allegory of Earth. Orleans MBA. Features a chariot of the Muses, one of whom prominently plays a tambourine. (Mirimonde Iconographie musicale. vol. I, no. 31 [detail])

Other: [Callot Pr] Callot, Jacques (1592-1635). La petite thèse/Iubilatio triumphi virgines ... etching. Includes a large number of draped female figures, two of whom play tambourines. (G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 191)

[Fornageris Pa] Fornageris, Jacques de (16th-17th century). Felicité de la Régence de Marie de Médicis. engraving. There are a number of unplayed musical instruments, including a tambourine. (Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 59)

[Stella Pa] Stella, Jacques (1596-1657). Allegory of the Liberality of Louis XIII and Cardinal Richlieu. Cambridge MA, Fogg Art Museum. Includes a woman playing a tambourine and numerous dancers. (Apollo 107 [1978] 396)

XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor

Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees/Parades: See also Mythology, Tritons.

[CI Nancy 1626] Callot, Jacques (1592-1635). "Entreé [sic] de Monseigneur Henry de Lorraine Marquie de Moij soubs [sous] le nom de Pirandre," from the procession to a combat à la barriere during the festivities for the official entry into Nancy of Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse, 14 February 1626, from Henri Humbert, Combat à la barriere ... Nancy 1627. pl. 42. etching. Court musicians dressed as women, riding in a wagon decorated as a Phoenix, play a number of musical instruments, including one playing a tambourine. (Bowles Musical Ensembles. fig. 118; H. Daniel. Callot's Etchings. New York 1974. fig. 206)

[CI Nancy 1627] Callot, Jacques (1592-1635). Cet entreé est de Monsieur le Comte de Brionne Grand Chambelan de son Altesse, representant Jason, from Henri Humbert, Combat à la barrière. Nancy 1627. pl. 42. etching. Procession as part of the festivities for the official entry into Nancy of Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse, 14 February 1627. TheArgo is surrounded by "Tritons", and sea nymphs, including two playing tambourines. (H. Daniel. Callot's Etchings. New York 1974. fig. 205)

[CI Nancy 1626] _______. "Entreé [sic] de son Altesse [Duke Charles IV] representant le Soleil." as above. He plays a harp. Among the "female" musicians in the preceding festival car, one plays a lute, and in the dancing group in front of the car two play tambourines. (H. Daniel. Callot's Etchings. New York 1974. fig. 207)

Street Scenes: [Stella Pr] Stella, Jacques (1596-1657). Children dancing before an Inn. etching. One of the children plays a tambourine. There is also an unrelated young woman playing a guitar. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 124 [1994] 119)

Tournaments: [Callot Pr] Callot, Jacques (1592-1635). "Cariere et rue neufve de Nancy, ou se font les Ioustes et Tournois ..." etching. There are comedians, including one playing a tambourine. (E. DeT. Bechtel. Jacques Callot. New York 1955. pl. III, after p. 40 [ok, but across page crease]; G. Sedoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 243 [too small])

Views: [Callot Pr] Callot, Jacques (1592-1635). The Palace Gardens at Nancy (1625). etching. Includes a woman playing a harp; figures singing and playing lute, tambourine; and figures on a balcony playing violin and lute. (E. DeT. Bechtel. Jacques Callot. New York 1955. fig. 136 [ok reproduction]; H. Daniel. Callot's Etchings. New York 1974. fig. 196. Considers it an allegory of Spring; G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. pp. 186, 188-89 [detail, including the lute player to the left of the stairs])

Village/Rustic Scenes: [Callot Pr] Callot, Jacques (1592-1635). Peasant woman with a basket,from Capricci di varie figure. etching. In the background, a rustic couple dances accompanied by men playing bagpipe and tambourine. (G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 208 [ok reproduction])

XIV: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor

Inn Interiors: [Le Valentin Pa] Le Valentin (Jean de Boullonge) (ca.1594-1632). Figures in an Inn. Strasbourg MBA. Figures play violin/viola, recorder and tambourine. (F. Harrison and J. Rimmer. European Musical Instruments. New York 1964. no. 119 [cropped]; M. Mojana. Valentin de Boulogne. Milan 1989. no. 34, p. 121 [poor color reproduction]; exh Cremona 1987: Dopo Caravaggio ... p. 46 [fair color reproduction, not exhibited]) This is very similar to one in Copenhagen SMfK (M. Mojana. Valentin de Boulogne. Milan 1989. no. 107, p. 221 [poor reproduction], as copy; Burlington 130 [1988] 652 [small]. Notes exh Copenhagen SMfK, 1988: Art Centres and Artists in Northern Europe.) Copy/Variant (private collection, London) (M. Mojana. Valentin de Boulogne. Milan 1989. no. 108, p. 221 [minuscule reproduction])

Parties/Music Parties: [Le Valentin Pa] Le Valentin (Jean de Boullonge) (ca.1594-1632). Allegorical Group. Vienna KH. A youth plays a violin, a cavalier plays a lute, an old man has a recorder and a woman plays a tambourine. (M. Mojana. Valentin de Boulogne. Milan 1989. no. 103, p. 219 [minusucle reproduction], as copy; exh Rome, 2000-01: Colori della Musica; Dipinti, strumenti e concerti tra Cinquecento e Seicento. p. 25 [small reproduction, not exhibited], with location as Paris Louvre; MirimondeIconographie musicale. vol. I, fig. 124; MgB IV/3 p. 57) Variant/copy in Blois MBA (Chateau) (deposit). (M. Mojana. Valentin de Boulogne. Milan 1989. no. 100, p. 218 [minuscule reproduction], as copy) Variant in Darmstadt, Hessisches LM (M. Mojana. Valentin de Boulogne. Milan 1989. no. 101, p. 218 [fair reproduction], as copy; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. no. V.11, p. 273 [fine color reproduction], as after Le Valentin; Gemälde aus dem Hessischen Landesmuseum in Darmstadt. Frankfurt am Main 1963. unnumbered illustration [color reproduction]). Variant/Copy of the Milan art market (Galleria Canessa) (M. Mojana. Valentin de Boulogne. Milan 1989. no. 104, p. 220 [minuscule reproduction], as copy) Variant/Copy on the New York art market (Acquavella Gallery, 1960) (M. Mojana. Valentin de Boulogne. Milan 1989. no. 201, p. 219 [fair reproduction], as copy; Burlington 102 [1960] June Supplement: Notable Works of Art now on the Market, pl. IX [ok reproduction]) Variant (Wildenstein, New York, 1960) (Nicolson Caravaggism pl. 692 [ok reproduction]. Considers the Darmstadt painting a copy of this. Notes exhibition, Sarasota, Ringling Museum, 1960: Figures at a Table ... no. 9.) Engraved by J. J. Huber (M. Mojana. Valentin de Boulogne. Milan 1989. no. 105, p. 220 [minuscule reproduction]) There is a related painting with figures with violin, recorder and tambourine (no lute) (London art market 1990). (Nicolson Caravaggism pl. 693 [fair reproduction], as "Valentin [? copy]")

XV: Miscellaneous Figures

Comedians/Clowns: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Tournaments.

[Callot Dr] Callot, Jacques (1592-1635). Comedian, from a series of drawings of comedians. St. Petersburg, Hermitage. drawing. A woman plays a tambourine and dances. She is Fracischina in the Balli di Sfassani series (see below). (A. Nicoll. The World of Harlequin ... Cambridge 1963. p. 156)

[Callot Pr] _______. "Cap. Babeo Cucuba," from Balli di Sfassania. etching. In the street scene in the background (tiny details) a woman dances to her tambourine and a man dances to his colascione. They dance together. (E. DeT. Bechtel. Jacques Callot. New York 1955. fig. 99, as Nancy, 1621; H. Daniel. Callot's Etchings. New York 1974. fig. 119; G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 113 [fine reproduction])

[Callot Pr] _______. "Bello Sguardo. Couiello,"from Balli di Sfessania. etching. In the street scene in the background (tiny details), at the left, a comedian (back view) plays a colascione (?). At the right there are a dancing tambourine player and a dancer in dynamic, feline poses. (E. DeT. Bechtel. Jacques Callot. New York 1955. fig. 101, as Nancy 1621; H. Daniel. Callot's Etchings. New York 1974. fig. 121; G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 113 [fine reproduction])

[Callot Pr] _______. "Fracischina. Gian Farina," from Balli di Sfessania. etching. In the foreground Fracischina (?) dances and plays a tambourine. In the background there is a street scene with acrobats and a guitar player. (E. DeT. Bechtel. Jacques Callot. New York 1955. fig. 100, as Nancy 1621; H. Daniel. Callot's Etchings. New York 1974. fig. 120; G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 113 [fine reproduction])

Itinerant/Street Musicians: [Callot Pr] Callot, Jacques (1592-1635). Two Itinerant Musicians. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum. etching. Dwarfs. A man plays guitar and a dancing woman plays a tambourine (JJ). (Early Music 2 [1974] 141)

Putti: See also Mythology, Bacchanales.

[DACH] GERMAN, AUSTRIAN AND SWISS ARTISTS

I: Old Testament

Triumph of David: [Po Rheydt-Giesenkirchen] German (probably Hessian), first half, 17th century. The Triumph of David. Rheydt-Giesenkirchen, Haus Horst. stove tile. The Welcoming Women play woodwind, tambourine and triangle. unimp. (Die Denkmäler des Rheinlands: Rheydt. Düsseldorf 1964. fig. 92)

[Liss Dr] Liss, Johann/Jan (Giovanni Lys) (1595-1629). Triumph of David. Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle. drawing. The Welcoming Women sing and play flute. A child plays a tambourine. (Burlington 123 [1981] October ad p. viii [on the New York art market]; Burlington 195 [1986] 195 [ok reproduction])

[Liss Pa] _______. Triumph of David. Naples, Palazzo Reale. Figures play flute (partly visible) and tambourine (JJ/BB). (Burlington 195 [1986] 195 [ok reproduction])

V: Mythology

Muses: [Dr Munich SgS] Anon. [late?] 16th century. Apollo and the Muses. Munich SgS. drawing. One of the Muses plays a large tambourine (vaguely bells and jingles). (Musica calendar 1964: title page)

XII: Decorative Elements

[BI Nuremberg 1589] Anon. Title page of Orlando di Lasso, Fasciculi aliquot sacrarum cantionum. Nuremberg, Gerlach, 1589. engraving. Includes many unplayed musical instruments, among them a tambourine. (Fraenkel no. 46 [poor impression]; MGG VIII, col. 266 [poor impression])

XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor

Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees/Parades: [Dr? Anon.] Anon, early 17th century. Tournament Procession in Dresden. drawing? Includes a group of musicians playing tromba marina, string drum and tambourine (B/B). (MGG III, cols. 767-8 [poor reproduction], from H. Schnoor. Dresden, vierhundert Jahre deutsche Musikkultur. Dresden 1948)

XIV: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor

Ballets: [CI Stuttgart 1616] Merian, Matthaeus I (1593-1650). Ballet of the Twelve Nations, performed following the banquet in honor of the baptism in Stuttgart of Prince Friedrich von Württemberg, 10 March 1616, from Esaias van Hulsen, Repraesentatio der fürstlichen Auffzug und Ritterspil ... Stuttgart 1616. engraving. A group of partly exotic musicians, including a dark-skinned (negro?) tambourine player. With undetailed background. (Hollstein [German] XXV, no. 53, p. 119; Naylor Trumpet and Trombone. no. 27) The same, with architectural background, from G. R. Weckherlin, Triumphall Shews Set Forth Lately at Stuttgart ... Stuttgart 1616. (Bowles Musical Ensembles, fig. 94)

Parties/Music Parties: [Liss Pa] Liss, Johann/Jan (Giovanni Lys) (1595-1629), attr. Music Party. London art market (1946). Women sing and play lute and cittern. Men play violin and harp. Not played: violin, trombone (?) and tambourine. (Ellesmere sale, Christie's, 18.X.1946)

XV: Miscellaneous Figures

Angels: [Schwartz Pa] Schwartz, Christoph (ca. 1550-1592). Virgin and Child with Angels. Munich AP. Five musical angels, including one with a tambourine. unimp. (G. Dehio. Geschichte der deutschen Kunst, III. 2/Berlin 1926. fig. 210)

Itinerant/Street Musicians: [Liss Dr] Liss, Johann/Jan (Giovanni Lys) (1595-1629). Two Musicians Fighting. Hamburg KH. drawing. Dwarfs(?) with guitar (?) and mandore (?). There is a tambourine (?) on the ground. (K. Steinbart. Johann Liss. Vienna 1946. pl. 6, as perhaps early Venetian work)

Putti: [Aachen Dr] Aachen, Hans von (1552-1615), after. Coronation of the Virgin. Budapest SM. drawing. Five musical putti, including one with a tambourine. (Alte und moderne Kunst, Bd. 25, H. 168 [1980] 19)

XVI: Treatise/Tutor Illustrations

[BI Wolfenbüttel 1620] Anon. "Morenpaucklin," from Michael Praetorius,Theatrum Instrumentorum seu Sciagraphia ... Wolffenbüttel 1620. pl. XXII, no. 7. woodcut. A tambourine (JJ/B). The plate is devoted to European folk instruments (hurdy gurdy, hunting horns, triangle, bells, jew's harp, xylophone, etc.) (facsimile: Kassel 1958. [Documenta musicologica, Ser. I, 14])

[BI Wolfenbüttel 1620] _______. "Ein Ring mit Schellen/die sie [die Americaner] in die höuff [space] werffen und wieder fangen/ etc." pl. XXIX, no. 7. The jingle ring (JJ) is on a plate devoted exotic instruments, almost exclusively American. To Praetorius the jingle ring is not only foreign, it's not even European. (Cf. the Stuttgart 1616 ballet.) (facsimile as above)

[EP] IBERIAN ARTISTS

X: Portraits, Genre Portraits and Conversation Pieces

[Ribera Pa] Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652). A Gypsy Girl with a Tambourine (Hearing). London NG (deposit from a private collection). (exh Cremona. 1996-97: I conque sense nell'arte/Immagini del sentire. Ed. S. Ferino-Pagden. no. VI.4, p. 151 [fine color reproduction]; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992: Jusepe de Ribera 1591-1652. Ed. A. E. Pérez Sánchez and N. Spinosa. no. 46, p. 127 [fine color reproduction])

[Ribera Pa] _______. A Man with a Wine Jug and a Tambourine or Jingle Ring. Mänttä, Museum Gösta Serlachius. (exh Cremona. 1996-97: I cinque sense nell'arte/Immagini del sentire. Ed. S. Ferino-Pagden. no. VI.2, p. 147 [fine color reproduction])

XV: Miscellaneous Figures

Angels: [Sánchez Cotán] Sánchez Cotán, Juan (1561/-1627). Assumption of the Virgin. Granada MBA. Numerous musical putti (and angels) including one playing a tambourine (and singing?). (E. Orozco Diaz. Las Virgenes de Sanchez Cotán. Granada 1954. p. 35)

[I] ITALIAN ARTISTS

I: Old Testament

David Dancing before the Ark/Transporting the Ark of the Covenant: [Po private collection] Italian (Florentine), [late] 16th century. David Dancing before the Ark. private collection. fayence plate. There is perhaps a woman playing a tambourine. (B. G. Söderberg. Uppland, II. Malmö 1967. [Slott och Herresäten i Sverige] p. 258)

Triumph of David: [Ne private collection] Italian, first half, 17th century. Scenes from the Story of David and Goliath. private collection. needlework band. Three dancing women. One plays guitar and another plays a tambourine. (Y. Hackenbroch. English and other needlework, tapestries and textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. Cambridge MA 1960. [The Irwin Untermyer Collection, vol. (4)] pl.164, fig. 208)

[Guercino School Pa] Guercino School (17th century). Triumph of David. Dublin NGI. Two of the Welcoming Women play tambourines (pairs of end-to-end jingles), and another plays a single kettledrum. (B. Boydell. Music and Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland. Dublin 1985. p. 51)

[Manetti Pa] Manetti, Rutilio di Lorenzo (1571-1639). Triumph of David. Lucca PC. Numerous musical groups, including six female dancers, one of whom plays a tambourine. (A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. vol. II, fig. 278)

[Manfredi Pa] Manfredi, Bartolomeo (1580-1620). Triumph of David. Paris Louvre. There are only two figures (not counting Goliath's head): David and a woman with a jingle ring (JJ). (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 122 [1993] 206) Very similar to a painting attr. Nicolas Tournier (London art market [1920]). See above.

[Procaccini Pa] Procaccini, Camillo (ca.1551/55-1629). Triumph of David. Milan, Duomo. Numerous musical Welcoming Women, including one playing a tambourine. (A Caizzi et al. Lombardia. Milan [1975?] pl. 467 [detail]; exh Milan [197-]: Il Seicento lombardo, II. pll. 21-22, and color detail, pl. I; CR Milan 1968: Il Duomo di Milano. ed. M. L. Gatti Perer. Milan 1969. p. 224, as 1592-1602)

[Rosselli Pa] Rosselli, Matteo (1578-1651). The Triumph of David (1620). Florence, Palazzo Pitti. Among the several Welcoming Women, one plays a tambourine. (A. M. Francini Ciaranfi. Pitti. Galleria Palatina. Novara 1955. p. 106; Pantheon 37 [1979] 387; Vis. Coll. 372.R7364.12D)

[Rosselli Pa] _______. The Triumph of David. Paris Louvre. Six musical Welcoming Women, including one with a tambourine. (Musique-Images-Instruments 2 [1996] 249 [small reproduction]; Vis. Coll. R7364.12D[a])

[Rosselli Pa] _______. The Triumph of David. St. Petersburg, Hermitage. Six musical Welcoming Women, including one with a tambourine. (1964 catalog of Italian 13th-18th century paintings, no. 139; Ermitazh Soobshcheniia8 [1955] 25)

[Rosselli Pa] _______, attr. The Triumph of David. Greenville SC, Bob Jones University. The Welcoming Women play lute, flute, tambourine (J/BB) and triangle. (The Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Paintings. Greenville SC 1962. vol. I, no. 64; Vis. Coll. 372.R7364.12D[b])

[Rovere Dr] Rovere, Giovanni Mauro della (ca.1561-p.1627), attr. Triumph of David. Edinburgh NGS. drawing. A woman riding on a donkey, waves a jingle ring. Very prominent. (K. Andrews. The National Gallery of Scotland. Catalogue of Italian Drawings. London 1968. fig. 755, p. 133 [small reproduction], as part of a Triumph of David)

Miriam/Crossing the Red Sea: [Ludovico Carracci Dr] Carracci, Ludovico (1555-1619). The Israelities Rejoicing at the Drowning of the Egyptians. drawing. Numerous musicians, including one playing a tambourine. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C233.31A. Location not recorded)

[Tempesta Pr] Tempesta, Antonio (1555-1630). Miriam Leading the Song of Praise at the Deliverance. etching. Women play cornett, tambourine and triangle. (IB vol. 35, no. 128, p. 38)

Other: [Cortona Dr] Cortona, Pietro Berrettini da (1596-1669). The Worship of the Golden Calf. Florence Uffizi 2981. drawing. Includes a figure with a tambourine. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C818.11Ca)

IV: Saints

St. Cecilia: [Grammatica Pa] Grammatica, Antiveduto (1571-1626). St. Cecilia. Lisbon, MN de Arte Antigua. The Saint sings, angels play harp and lute, and there are a violin, little lute, recorder and tambourine (the tambourine of his Turin painting) on a table in front of them. (Mirimonde Sainte Cécile p. 99, p. 127; Nicolson Caravaggism pl. 418 [ok reproduction]; exh Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. p. 108 [not exhibited]) Variant: Vienna KH. (Nicolson Caravaggism pl. 419 [fair reproduction]; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. no. III.28, p. 239 [ok color reproduction]. Considers this a later, ca.1620/25, version. Dates the Lisbon painting as 1610/12; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 20 [small reproduction, not exhibited]) Note: The two most commonly reproduced versions are the one in Lisbon and the one in Vienna. One (A) has the instruments on the table, from left to right, as recorder, violin, lute and tambourine. The other (B) has, from left to right, tambourine, recorder, violin and lute. I have listed the references according to where they say the painting is, although they do not agree. Mirimonde pl. 99, Nicolson pl. 419 and Colori della musica are (A). Nicolson pl. 418 and Dipingere la musica are (B).

[Schedoni Pa] Schedoni, Bartolomeo (ca. 1570-1615), attr. St. Cecilia. Naples MN. Includes a tambourine on the floor in the foreground. (Musica calendar 1986: 16-29 November [fine color reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.B141.38C, as by Sisto Badalocchio [1581-1647])

Other: [Ludovico Carracci Dr] Carracci, Ludovico (1555-1619). Study for a Temptation of St. Benedict. Paris Louvre. drawing. Four women dance, including one with a tambourine. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 129)

V: Mythology

Bacchanals: [Annibale Carracci Dr] Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609). Triumph of Bacchus. Paris Louvre 7183. drawing. Includes figures playing a huge aulos, oliphant and tambourine. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C232.4B)

[Annibale Carracci Fr] _______, and Agostino (1557-1602). Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. Rome, Palazzo Farnese. fresco. Bacchants play double woodwind and curved horn (dancing). Dancing bacchantes play cymbals and tambourine. (R. de Broglie. Le palais farnèse, Ambassade de France. Paris n.d. pl. XXX [ok reproduction], as by Annibale; V. Bruhns. Die Kunst der Stadt Rom. Vienna 1951. fig. 352; T. H. Fokker. Roman Baroque Art. Oxford n.d. fig. 67; V. Golzio. Palazzi romani ... Bologna 1971. fig. 164 [small reproduction]; TCI. Roma I. Milan 1941. [Attraverso l'Italia, 9] p. 129; Vis. Coll. 372.C232.4[a]1D)

[Annibale Carracci Dr] _______. Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. Vienna, Albertina. drawing. A study for the fresco in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome. One of the bacchantes has a tambourine. (D. Posner. Antoine Watteau. Ithaca NY 1984. p. 74 [detail of the tambourine player]; exh Bologna, Palazzo del Archiginnasio, 1956: Mostra dei Carracci [Disegni]. Ed. D. Mahon. cat. no. 150, fig. 50)

[Annibale Carracci Pr] _______, attr. The Triumph of Bacchus. engraving. A bacchant plays a curved horn and bacchantes play tambourine and cymbals. (IB vol. 39, no. 19, p. 407; no. 19A, p. 408, doubtful attribution)

[Lodovico Carracci Dr] Carracci, Ludovico (1555-1619). The Triumph of Bacchus. Florence Uffizi. drawing. Bacchants play recorder, straight trumpet and tambourine. A centaur plays a lyre. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C233.4Ba)

[Cortona Pa] Cortona, Pietro Berrettini da (1596-1669). The Triumph of Bacchus. Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolina. Bacchants play trumpets and a horn/cornu. Bacchantes play cymbals and tambourine. (exh Cortona, 1956: Mostra di Pietro da Cortona. pl. III, as before 1624 [useless reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.C818.4B[a])

[Cortona Pa] _______. The Triumph of Bacchus. Castelfusato, Galleria di Villa Sacchetti. Bacchantes play two pairs of cymbals and a small tambourine. (Imago Musicae7 [1990] 90)

[Cortona Pa] _______. The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. private collection. A Bacchante plays a tambourine. (Vis. Coll. 372.C818.4B)

[Reni-Bolognini Pr] B. G. Bolognini after Guido Reni (1575-1642). Bacchus and Ariadne on Naxos. engraving. Bacchants play woodwind (cornett-shaped) and jingle ring. There is another jingle ring on the ground. (IB vol. 42, no. 4, pp.168-169)

Hercules: See also Allegory, Vice/Virtue.

[Annibale Carracci Fr] Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) and Agostino (1557-1602). Hercules and Iole. Rome, Galleria Farnese. fresco. Hercules plays her tambourine. She holds his club. (W. Hansmann. Das Treppenhaus und das Grosse Neue Appartement des Brühler Scholsses. Düsseldorf 1972. fig. 64; Burlington 127 [1985] 527; Vis. Coll. 372.C232.4[a]6) Etching by Carlo Cesio (1625-1686). (IB vol. 47, no. 25, p.57)

Muses: [Fr Vercelli Tizzoni] Italian (Vercellese), late 16th century. Muses. fresco. Vercelli, Casa dei Tizzoni. ceiling fresco. Includes a Muse with a tambourine. (A. M. Brizio. Catalogo delle cose d'arte e di antichità d'Italia: Vercelli. Rome 1935. p. 175)

[Pa Florence Stibbert] Italian (Venetian), early 17th century. Apollo and the Muses. Florence, Museo Stibbert. painting on a harpsichord. One of the Muses has a tambourine. [G. Cantelli. Il Museo Stibbert a Firenze. Milan [1974]. vol. II, pl. 34 [useless reproduction])

[Gatti Pr] Gatti, Oliviero (op. 1602-1628). The Muses on Mt. Parnassus beneath the Stemma of Cardinal Pio (1626). engraving. One of the Muses has a tambourine. (IB vol. 41, no. 52, p. 69)

Other: [Ludovico Carracci Fr] Carracci, Ludovico (1555-1619). Transporting the Trojan Horse, from Twelve Scenes from Virgil's Aeneid. Bologna, Palazzo Fava (1939: Albergo majestic). fresco. Three heralds blowing looped, curved horns precede the horse. There are also rejoicing women with tambourine and triangle. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 3) Engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718). (IB vol. 42, no. 48, p. 323)

[Passarotti Pa] Passarotti, Tiburzio (ca. 1555-1612), attr. The Pierides Transformed into Magpies. Bologna PN. One of them has a tambourine. (A. Emiliani, ed. La Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. Bologna 1967. p. 279)

[Tempesta Pr] Tempesta, Antonio (1555-1630). "Apulus pastor in oleastrum transit"/The Apulian Shepherd Changed into an Olive Tree, from Ovid, Metamorphoses. etching. In the background five women dance, flanked by women playing tambourine and triangle. (IB vol. 36, no. 776, p. 79)

VI: Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures

[Filippo Pa] Filippo d'Angelo (Filippo Napoletano) (1587/91-ca.1630). Triumph of an Emperor (Constantine?). private collection. A procession, including a tambourine player. (1971 catalog of the collection of Roberto Longhi, no. 66, pl. 66 [fine color reproduction], as ca. 1614-1618)

[Domenichino Pa] Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (1581-1641). The "Consecratio" of a Roman Emperor. Madrid Prado. There is a group of dancing women playing cymbals and perhaps tambourine. (R. E. Spear. Domenichino. New Haven 1982. cat. 112, vol. II, pl. 394 [unhelpful reproduction], as 1634-36)

VII: Allegory

Geographical: [BI Padua 1611] Anon. "Pvglia"/Apulia, from Cesare Ripa, Iconologia. Padua, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1611. p. 285. woodcut. Includes a pile of musical instruments: cittern, flute/fife, drum and tambourine or large, shallow drum. (facsimile: New York 1976)

[BI Padua 1618] Anon. "Pvglia" [Apulia], from Caesare Ripa, Nuova iconologia. Padua, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1618. p. 287. woodcut. With musical instruments on the ground: cittern (no strings), flute, frame drum and tambourine. A copy of the woodcut of the 1611 edition. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 61)

Love and Sex: [Riminaldi Pa] Riminaldi, Orazio (1586-1631). Amore Vincitore. Florence, Galleria Palatina di Palazzo Pitti. Cupid holds a cittern. There is an unplayed tambourine. (NicolsonCaravaggism.pl. 238 [small reproduction]; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica. no. 20, pp. 153 [ok color reproduction], 155 [fine color detail with the cittern and the tambourine]; exh Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 1970: Caravaggio e Caravaggeschi nelle Gallerie di Firenze. Ed. E. Borea. pl. 16)

Seasons (Spring): [Tempesta Pr] Tempesta, Antonio (1555-1630). Spring, from a Four Seasons series. etching. The personification is flanked by border figures (dancing women) playing tambourine and triangle. (IB vol. 36, no. 808, p. 106)

Vice/Virtue: [Annibale Carracci Pa] Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609). The Choice of Hercules. Naples MN di Capodimonte. There are an unplayed violin and an unplayed tambourine. (E. Panofsky. Hercules am Scheidewege ... Berlin 1930. pl.XLIV; Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 50 [1987] 107)

[Cortona Dr] Cortona, Pietro Berrettini da (1596-1669). The Choice of Hercules. London BM. Voluptas dances with her tambourine. (E. Panofsky. Hercules am Scheidewege ... Berlin 1930. Abb. 73)

[Valesio Pr] Valesio, Giovanni Luigi (1583-1633). Title page border for Ulyssis Aldrovandi, De Reliquis Animalibus. Bologna, Jean Baptiste Bellegambe [1606]. engraving. "Veritas" holds a pitcher and a jingle ring. (IB vol. 40 Commentary, no. 4002.013, p. 37 [ok reproduction])

VIII: Emblems

See also Allegory, Geographical.

X: Portraits, Genre Portraits and Conversation Pieces

[Cecco del Caravaggio Pa] Cecco del Caravaggio (op. 1619), attr. The Conjurer. London, Apsley House, Coll. Duke of Wellington. Genre portrait. Includes a violin and a jingle ring. (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 462 [ok reproduction], as "musical instrument-maker"; Wellington Museum. Paintings at Apsley House. Ed. C. M. Kauffmann. London 1965. pl.4, as Ludovicus Finson; exh Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. no. 23 [fine reproduction], as ca. 1610; Vis. Coll. C3239.90[a]) Replica: Athens, Polytechnic Institute, Pinakotheka. (exh Vienna, Papais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica ... cat. I.1, p. 127 [fine color reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.C1761.90[d], as Caravaggio School)

[Manfredi Pa] Manfredi, Bartolomeo (1580-1620). A Gypsy Woman with a Tambourine. private collection. (exh Cremona 1987. Dopo Caravaggio ... no. 7, p. 71 [ok color reproduction]; Hamburg Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 12 [1994] 63, after Dopo Caravaggio. Notes that such women entertained in upper-class households [the one cited here was the household of the Pope].)

XII: Decorative Elements

[BI Venice 1600] Anon. Title page of Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta, Nobiltà di Dame. Venice, Presso il Muschio, 1600. engraving. Includes a musical trophy with a jingle ring. (Early Music 14 [1986] 174 [ok reproduction]; MGG I, Taf. XLIV, with imprint date MDCV [1605])

[BI Venice 1605] Anon. Title page of Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta, Nobiltà di Dame. Venice, Presso il Muschio, 1605. engraving. The border trophy at the left includes a jingle ring. very unimp. (MGG I, Taf. XLIV)

XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor

Carnival: See also Flemish.

Fairs/Festivals: [Cantagallina Dr] Cantagallina, Remigio (ca.1582-ca.1650) The Fair at Impruneta. private collection. drawing. Includes dancers accompanied by musicians (both men) playing bagpipe and tambourine. (exh State University of New York at Binghamton, University Art Gallery, 1970: Selections from the Drawing Collection of Julius S. Held. no. 68 [small reproduction], as by Jacques Stella [1596-1657]; Burlington 112 [1970] 556, as Cantagallina)

Landscapes: [Viola Pa] Viola, Giovanni Battista (1576-1622). Landscape with Musicians and Dancers. Barnard Castle, The Bowes Museum. The dancers are accompanied by rustic figures playing shawm and tambourine. (Burlington 135 [1993] 762])

[Viola Circle Pa] Viola, Giovanni Battista (1576-1622), Circle of. A River Landscape. private collection. Figures in a boat being cast off play chitarrone and tambourine (?). (exh Cleveland, Museum of Art, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. pl. 17)

Street Scenes: See also Flemish.

XIV: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor

Operatic/Theatrical Scenes: [CI Florence 1617] Jacques Callot (1592-1635) after Giulio Parigi (1571-1635). "Terzo Intermedio dove si vide venire Amore con tvtta sva Corte, a divider la battaglia," from La liberazione di Tirreno (music by Marco da Gagliano), performed 6 February 1617 for the wedding of Catherine de'Medici and Duke Ferdinand Gonzaga of Mantua. etching. Musicians in rows along each side of the stage, including at least two tambourine players. (G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 77; Art Bulletin64 [1982] 211 [useless reproduction]; MGG I, Taf. XLVII, as performed in Carnival, Florence, 1616)

XV: Miscellaneous Figures

Angels: [Fr Cassano d'Adda] Italian, late-16th - early 17th century. Angel Musicians. Cassano d'Adda, S. Dionigi, apse. fresco. Includes one with a tambourine. (M. L. Gatti Perer. Studi e ricerche nel territorio della provincia di Milano. Milan 1967. pp. 50-51, as between 1590-1620)

[Ludovico Carracci Pa] Carracci, Ludovico (1555-1619). Glory of Angel Musicians. Bologna, S. Paolo. One of the many musical angels has a tambourine. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 92, as ca. 1616; K. M. Komma.Musikgeschichte in Bildern. Stuttgart 1961. p. 109; K. Meyer Baer. Music of the Spheres ... Princeton 1970. p. 164; C. Sartori, ed. Ricordi Enciclopedia della Musica. Milan 1963-4. vol. I, pl. 94; Vis. Coll.372.C233.39P)

[Ludovico Carracci Pa] _______. Nativity. Milan, Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abbate. Six musical angels, including one playing a tambourine. very unimp. (Arte illustrataIV/43/44 [Sept.-Oct. 1971] 54, as ca.1611-12) There is a preparatory drawing for this in the Uffizi, Florence. also very unimp. (Arte illustrataIV/43/44 [Sept.-Oct. 1971] 55 [fine color reproduction])

[Ludovico Carracci Dr] _______. Angel Concert. Amsterdam art market (1921). A study for one of the angel concerts for the presbyterium ceiling of the Duomo, Piacenza. Five musical angels (plus singers), including one playing a tambourine. (catalog of the dealer de Vries, Amsterdam 1929. no. 210)

[Cesi Pa] Cesi, Bartolomeo (1556-1629). Saint Benedict. Bologna, San Procolo. Angels, above, play a portative organ and a cittern, but the pose of the portative player looks suspiciously as though it once belonged to a tambourine player. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts [April 1989] La chronique des arts no. 1443, p. 21 [small reproduction], with reference to A. Graziani. Bartolomeo Cesi. Milan 1988)

[Pellegrini Pa] Pellegrini, Vincenzo (1575-1612). The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine. Greenville SC, Bob Jones University. Six musical angels, including one playing a tambourine. (The Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Paintings. Greenville SC 1962. vol. I, no. 59)

[Reni Fr] Reni, Guido (1575-1642). St. Dominic in Glory. Bologna, S. Domenico. vault fresco. Seven musical angels, including one with a jingle ring. (P. Venturino Alce. Il Coro di San Domenico in Bologna. Bologna 1969. p. 117 [small reproduction], as 1614-1615; Vis. Coll. 372.R295.38Do)

[Reni Dr] _______. Coronation of the Virgin. Edinburgh NGS, D.702r. drawing. Four or five musical angels, perhaps one with a tambourine. unimp. (K. Andrews. "An early Guido Reni drawing." Burlington 103 [1961] 461-465, this reproduced p. 463)

[Reni Fr] _______. God in Glory. Rome, San Gregorio al Cielo, Oratorio di S. Silvia. fresco. Numerous musical angels, including one playing a tambourine. (L. Bruhns. Die Kunst der Stadt Rom. Vienna 1951. fig. 358 [small reproduction]; V. Golzio. Seicento e settecento. 3/Turin 1968. [Storia dell'arte classica e italiana, 4] p. 713 [left half, including tambourine], as 1608; Le Chiese di Roma illustrata: S. Gregorio al Cielo. Rome n.d. p. 46 [fair reproduction], as 1608, in very poor condition ["assai guasto"] and partly repainted; TCI. Roma II. Milan 1943. [Attraverso l'Italia] p. 45; MGG IV, cols. 1195-1198; Vis. Coll. 372.R295.39G)

[Saraceni Pa] Saraceni, Carlo (1585-1620). Paradise. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Musical angels include one with a tambourine. unimp. (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 166 [ok reproduction], as The Holy Trinity and the Community of the Blessed; 1973 catalog: Italian Painting. Venetian School. Ed. F. Zeri. pl. 55; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985: The Age of Caravaggio.no. 57, p. 191 [fine reproduction]; sale, Sotheby's 16.VII.1969; Burlington 112 [1970] 314, as Community of the Blessed Adoring the Holy Trinity) Met acquired it in 1971.

Itinerant/Street Musicians: [Tempesta Pr] Tempesta, Antonio (1555-1630). Dancers and Musicians, from Grotesque Figurs. etching. Three dancers are accompanied by figures playing bagpipe and tambourine. (IB vol. 37, no 1375, p. 210)

Musicians and Dancers: [Boscoli Dr] Boscoli, Andrea (1550-1606), attr. Landscape with Figures. Düsseldorf, Staatl. Kunstakademie. drawing. Among the figures, a child and a woman with a tambourine dance. There is also a player of a woodwind instrument (straight cornett or flute). (I. Budde. Beschreibender Katalog der Handzeichnungen in der Staatlichen Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1930. no. 27, pl. 8, as Bacchanale)

[Ludovico Carracci Dr] Carracci, Ludovico (1555-1619). A Horse-Drawn Wagon with Musicians. Paris Louvre. drawing. Women play cymbals, jingle ring, tambourine and triangle. unimp. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 128 [fine reproduction])

[Pa Cavarozzi] Cavarozzi, Bartolomeo (ca.1590-1625), attr. Two Figures, with Musical Instruments and Grapes. Paris Louvre. A boy with a wreath of leaves on his head plays a recorder. A young woman leans pensively on her tambourine (JJ). There is a violin lying on the table in front of them. (Nicolson Caravaggism pl. 11, as "Caravaggesque unknown, Roman based"; Musique-Images-Instruments 2 [1996] 240 [fair reproduction], as Cavarozzi; Vis. Coll. 372.It117.90[h], as Italian, 17th century)

[Grammatica Pa] Grammatica, Antiveduto (1571-1626). The Lute Player (fragment of a Music Party?). Turin, Galleria Sabauda. He plays an archlute or small chitarrone. On the table in front of him a guitar, recorder (?--very partly visible) and tambourine. (V. Golzio. Seicento e settecento. 3/Turin 1968. [Storia dell'arte classica e italiana, 4] p. 1353; R. Levi Pisetzky. Storia del costume in Italia, III. Milan 1966. p. 14 [ok reproduction]; A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 115 [fair reproduction]; C. Sartori, ed. Ricordi Enciclopedia della Musica. Milan 1963-4. vol. I, pl. opp. p. 96 [color reproduction]; exh Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. no. 33, as ca.1610-15; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. p. 32 [fair reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 80 [fair reproduction, not exhibited]; 1971 catalog, fig. 368, pl. 139, as ca. 1615; Early Music 4 [1976] 164 [with detail of the lute player's left hand], identifies the lute as a chitarrone francese; MGG XIII, Taf. 14 [ok reproduction, but not very clear of the tambourine]; Vis. Coll. 372.C178.90[i]) Copy: location unknown, showing what is assumed to be a missing portion at the left, with a woman playing a harpsichord and a man playing a flute. Actually, it is rather pastiche-like and may not represent a complete version of the Turin painting. (exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 79 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990: A Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player. Ed. K. Christiansen. p. 27 [not exhibited]; Cleveland 1971 exh fig. 25)

Putti: [BI Modena 1622] Anon. Title page of Bellerophonte Castaldi, Capricci a due stromenti. Modena, the composer, 1622. engraving. Includes putti playing violin and tambourine. (Fraenkel pl. 84)

[Albani Pa] Albani, Francesco (1578-1660). Dancing Amoretti, with the Rape of Proserpine. Dresden, Gemäldegalerie. Putti play woodwind (cornett?, shawm?), tambourine and triangle. (Vis. Coll. 372.A1.13.4Am)

[Albani Pa] _______. Dance of Love. Florence Uffizi. Putti play small woodwind (shawm?), small frame drum and tambourine. (Vis. Coll. 372.Al.13.4Lo[a])

[Albani Pa] _______. Dancing Cupids. Milan Pinacoteca. Putti play a small shawm, a tambourine, and another instrument which looks sort of like a round-bottomed frying pan played with a sort of drumstick. (Vis. Coll. 372.Al.13.40)

[Annibale Carracci Pa] Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609). Sleeping Venus. Chantilly, Musée Condé. Cupids dance and play recorder and tambourine. (CR Venice, 1976: Tiziano e Venezia. fig. 208)

[Annibale Carracci Pa] _______. Flora. Modena, Pinacoteca Estense. A putto has a tambourine. (Vis. Coll. C232.4Fl)

[Ludovico Carracci Pa] Carracci, Ludovico (1555-1619). Flora (or Ops)/Earth. Modena, Galleria Estense. ceiling fresco. Includes a putto (butterfly wings) with a tambourine (JJ/BB). (Burlington 134 [1992] 419 [ok reproduction], as Mythological figure, as 1592; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 67 [1966] 16 [ok reproduction])

[Morazzone Fr] Morazzone, Pier Francesco (1571/73-1624/26). Coronation of the Virgin. Como, Duomo, sagrestia dei Mansionari. fresco. Many musical putti, including one with a tambourine. unimp. (F. Frigerio. Il duomo di Como e il Broletto. Como 1950. fig. 208)