Status as of January 2000
Musical Instruments in Western European Art
An Iconographical Guide
The Tambourine --18th Century
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ADDITIONAL ENTRIES. The entries published here are only the ones for which I have somewhat respectable bibliographic entries at this time. I have much more information for these and for additional entries which will be added as I get around to it. I didn't set out to compile a bibliography -- or, more properly, an iconography. This list is just what happens to be lying about the house. It is very much a work in progress, but if I waited until everything was perfect, it would never appear.
However, I would appreciate corrections -- wrong page references, for example. Send corrections to
Mary Rasmussen
Music Department
University of New Hampshire
Durham NH 03824 (USA)
I am singularly error-prone, alas, and I am sure that there are numerous mistakes in this list. Sorry. I am quite capable of looking squarely at page 256 and writing down page 276, and I seem to have a little trouble telling right from left. I hope the benefits oughtway the frustration.
A few late entries didn't make the index. Sorry.
I thought that I had been careful to distinguish between tambourines (with heads) and jingle rings (open hoops), but it is clear that I was not. Thus, all jingle rings are jingle rings (that much I got right), but some tambourines will turn out to be jingle rings as well. Sorry. Eventually I'll get it straightened out.
The purpose of this iconography is to answer the question "Where can I find an illustration of ...?" I have included only works of art for which there is a published reproduction (plus some that are in the Visual Collection, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University and a few in the Bild-Archiv Photo Marburg).
Many thanks to John Rogers and the UHN Music Department for putting this index on their web page.
[GB] BRITISH ARTISTS -- 18th CENTURY
V: Mythology
Bacchanals: [Heming Me] Heming, Thomas (doc. 1745-1783). The Tatton Cup. Manchester City Art Gallery. silver gilt cup. The handles are figures of Pan, holding panpipes, and a bacchante with a tambourine. (Burlington 125 [1983] 282, 287 [detail], as ca.1760)
Muses: [Runciman Dr] Runciman, Alexander (1736-1785). The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis. Edinburgh NGS. drawing. One of the Muses has a tambourine. (Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 32 [1969] pl. 47b, after p. 336)
VII: Allegory
Other: [Romney Pa] Romney, George (1734-1802). Allegro. London art market (1984). The principal figure dances, bacchante-like, to her tambourine. Other female figures play lute, lyre and triangle. (Burlington 130 [1988] 764
X: Portraits and Conversation Pieces
[Allan Pa] Allan, David (1744-1796). Sir John Halkett of Pitfirrane, 4th Bart., and his Family (1781). Edinburgh NGS. Young women play a long-necked mandolin and huge tambourine as children dance. (M. Praz. An Illustrated History of Furnishing. New York 1964. p. 137; National Gallery of Scotland. 40 Scottish Paintings. Edinburgh 1958. no. 12 [fair reproduction])
[Devis Pa] Devis, Arthur (1711-1787). Emily and George Mason. private collection (now New Haven, Yale Center for British Art?). Emily plays a tambourine. (M. Praz. An Illustrated History of Furnishing. New York 1964. p. 159)
[Gainsborough-Jones Pr] John Jones (1740-1797) after Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Portrait of Signora Bacelli. engraving. Signora Bacelli was a dancer, and is here portrayed in a park. There is a tambourine on the ground. (exh Paris BN, 1906: Exhibition d'oeuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle. cat. no. 805, repr. opp. p. 144)
[Hoare Pa] Hoare, William (1706-1799). Portrait of Henrietta Ann Hoare. Stourhead (N. T.). She is a young girl, playing a tambourine (B). (R. Leppert. Music and Image ... Cambridge 1988. p. 152 [ok reproduction])
[Romney Pa] Romney, George (1734-1802). The Children of the 2nd Earl Gower. Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery. A young woman plays a tambourine and four children dance. The tambourine player is based on the principal figure of Allegro (see Allegory, Music/Liberal Arts, above). (D. Irwin. English Neoclassical Art ... London 1966, as the Leveson-Gower children; exh London, RAA, 1934: British Art. Oxford 1935. no. 220, pl. LXXIV, as 1776/77; Connoisseur [Oct. 1972] 144 [poor reproduction]; Burlington 115 [1973] May ad p. lxxv [after cleaning], 341; Burlington 130 [1988] 765)
XII: Decorative Elements
[BI London 1737 ] Bickham, George, Jr. (1710/15?-1758). "Or if more influencing is to be brisk & airy," from The Musical Entertainer, vol. II. London 1740. p. 62. engraving. With a little pile of objects, including a generic woodwind and a tambourine. very unimp. (Facsimile of the 2/1740 edition: New York 1965)
[BI London 1737] _______. "The Jovial lover." Includes a trophy of violin/viola, the bells of two woodwind instruments and a large tambourine. unimp. (Facsimile of the 2/1740 edition: New York 1965)
XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor
Carnival: [Allan Dr] Allan, David (1744-1796). Opening of the Carnival, Rome, Piazza del Popolo, 1775. Coll. H. M. the Queen. drawing. Includes a dancing couple accompanied by a player of a huge tambourine. Engraved by Paul Sandby. (G. Matthiae. Piazza del Popolo. Rome 1946. opp. p. 32 [poor reproduction]; MGG vol. 11, Taf. 42 [ok reproduction])
Fêtes/Danses Champêtres: [Hallé Pa] Hallé, Noel (1711-1781), attr. A Musical Party in a Park. Waddesdon Manor (N. T.), James A. Rothschild Coll. Figures sing and play lute (?), musette and flute. There is a tambourine on the ground. (E. Waterhouse. Paintings [in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor]. London 1967. no. 110)
Other: [Allan Pr] Allan, David (1744-1796). A Couple Dancing Beside the Bay, Naples. etching. Two young couples dance (one with castanets), accompanied by a man playing a mandola and a woman playing a large tambourine. (exh Naples, 1957: Vedute napoletane della raccolta Lemmerman. pl. XXIII)
XV: Miscellaneous Figures
Musicians (amateur and professional): [Po (Bow) Williamstown] British (Bow), ca. 1760-65. Two Musicians. Williamstown, Lawrence Art Museum. porcelain figure group. A man plays pipe and tambourine; a woman holds a triangle. (I. Untermyer. Chelsea and other English Porcelain ... in the Untermyer Collection. Ed. Y. Hackenborch. Cambridge MA 1957. fig. 246, pl. 83)
[Po location unknown] British (Bow), ca. 1765. Two Musicians. location unknown. a pair of porcelain figures. The man has a bagpipe and the woman has a tambourine. (I. Untermyer. Chelsea and other English Porcelain ... in the Untermyer Collection. Ed. Y. Hackenborch. Cambridge MA 1957. fig. 248, pl. 89 [color reproduction])
[Zoffany Pa] Zoffany, Johann (1734/35-1810). Itinerant Musicians. Parma, Pinacoteca. They include a woman with a large tambourine. (Harrison and Rimmer no. 170; Musica calendar, 1982: 13-26 June [fine color reproduction])
[NL] DUTCH ARTISTS -- 18th CENTURY
VII: Allegory
Music/Liberal Arts: [Pepers Sc] Pepers, Pieter (1703-1785). Allegory of Music. Bruges, Stedelijke Museum. sculpture. A chinese child leans on a harp. There is a tambourine (B) beside him. (Musica calendar, 1982: 25 July - 7 August [fine reproduction])
[B] -- FLEMISH ARTISTS -- 18th CENTURY
VI: Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures
[Ta Vienna] Flemish (Brussels, atelier of Judocus de Vos), 18th century. The Betrothal of Myrtellus at the Altar of Diana, from Giovanni Battista Guarini, Il Pastor Fido. Vienna KH (?). tapestry. Includes a dancing woman playing a tambourine. (Göbel I/2, no. 354, as ca. 1750, as Austrian State Property)
XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor
Carnival: See also Scenes of Everyday Life, Village/Rustic.
[Lint Pa] Lint, Jacob van (1723-1790). The Carnival in Rome: The Piazza Colonna. Waddesdon Manor, N. T. Includes several revellers with musical instruments, including one with a tambourine. (E. Waterhouse. Paintings [in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor]. London 1967. no. 83 [reproduction not helpful for details])
Village/Rustic Scenes: [Ta Stuttgart] Flemish (Brussels), 18th century. Carnival Festival in a Dutch Tavern, from a Fins Teniers series. Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie (?). tapestry. A woman brandishes a bow-and-bladder drone and another figure has a tambourine. (Göbel I/2, no. 311 [fair reproduction], as ca. 1730, as Württemberg State Property)
[F] FRENCH ARTISTS -- 18th CENTURY
V: Mythology
Bacchanals: [Clodion Sc] Clodion (Claude Michel) (1738-1814). The Bacchantes. private collection. terra cotta sculpture. Two bacchantes and an infant satyr. Includes an unplayed tambourine. (G. Huisman. Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français ... Paris 1937. vol. II, no.57)
[Natoire Pa] Natoire, Charles Joseph (1700-1777). Bacchanal. Houston MFA. Two bacchantes, one a rather sexy reclining nude, have tambourines. unimp. (Burlington 125 [1983] April ad p. vii [ok reproduction], as ca. 1747; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 105 [March 1985] La chronique des arts no. 1394, p. 37 [small reproduction]; Die Weltkunst 53 [1983] 1376 [small reproduction])
Muses: [Ta location unknown] French (Beauvais, Besnier-Oudry) (cartoon by François Boucher), ca. 1750. The Arrival, from the Story of Psyche. location unknown. Muses play flute and tambourine. There is also an unplayed tambourine. (Göbel II/2, no. 231)
[Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770). Clio. private collection. Includes an unplayed tambourine. (exh London, Royal Academy of Art, 1968: France in the Eighteenth Century. no. 57, fig. 122)
[Boucher Pa] _______. Erato. London art Market (1950). She plays a tambourine. (Burlington 92 [December 1950] Notable Works pl. VII [ok reproduction])
[Boucher Pa] _______. Terpsichore. New York art market (1985). She plays a tambourine. MENTIONABLE (ok, I suppose) (Die Weltkunst 55 [1985] 1306)
Satyrs: [Pajou Sc] Pajou, Augustine (1730-1809). Satyr and Child (one of a pair, with Satyress and Child) (1772). private collection. marble figure group. The satyr is teaching his child to play the panpipes. There is an unplayed tambourine. (exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1935-36: French Painting and Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century. pl. 90-91)
Other: [Lelu Dr] Lelu, Pierre (1741-1810). Cybele on a Chariot drawn by Lions. Berlin Kunstbibliothek. drawing. She plays a tambourine. (Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Die französischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Kritischer Katalog. Ed. E. Berckenhagen. Berlin 1970. No. Hdz 2934, p. 372 [ok reproduction])
VI: Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures
[Ta Aix-en-Provence] French (Beauvais) (cartoon by Charles Natoire [1700-1777]), 1735-44. Le repas de Sancho dans l'Ile de Barataria, from a Don Quixote series. Aix-en-Provence, Musée de l'ancien archevêche. tapestry. A wild group of musicians plays two oboes, trumpet, frame drum and tambourine (J/B?). (M. F. Braive and J. G. Martial. Aix-en-Provence. Paris [1955]. unnumbered p; exh Paris, Palais National des Arts, 1937: Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français. vol. 2, no. 123, pl. CLX, as 1735-44; G. Huisman. Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français ... Paris 1937. vol. II, no. 123)
[Fragonard Dr] Fragonard, Jean Honoré (1732-1806). Renaud dans le jardin d'Armide. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales. drawing. Several musical figures, including a woman playing a tambourine. There is also an unplayed tambourine in the center foreground. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 123 [March 1994] La chronique des arts, p. 34 )
VII: Allegory
Dance: See also Music/Poetry/Liberal Arts.
Music/Poetry/Liberal Arts: [Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770). Apollo Crowning the Arts. Tours MBA. oil sketch. Includes an unplayed tambourine. (P. Vitry. Le Musée de Tours. Paris 1911. pl. 46; 1962 Inventory, no. 8, as probably a design for a theater curtain)
Seasons: [Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770). Spring, from a Four Seasons series (1755). New York, Frick Collection. Includes a pseudo shepherd and shepherdess, and a tambourine on the ground. (The Frick Collection: An Illustrated Catalogue, II. Paintings: French, Italian and Spanish. New York 1968. p. 25 [color reproduction])
[Boucher Pa] _______. Winter. location unknown (ex La Hulpe, Coll. Baron Janssen). Five cupids, with unplayed recorder and tambourine. Doesn't make a lot of sense. (exh. Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1964: François Bolucher, premier pientre du roi. no. 60)
[Houdon Sc] Houdon, Jean-Antoine (1741-1828). Summer. Montpellier, Musée Fabre. sculptured figure. Allegorical female figure. Includes an unplayed tambourine. (G. Huisman. Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français ... Paris 1937. vol. II, no. 56)
X: Portraits/Conversation Pieces
[Boissieu Pa] Boissieu, Jean-Jacques de (1736-1810). The Childrens' Dance. Paris, Musée du Petit Palais. Four children dance as a woman plays a tambourine. It includes several identifiable members of the artist's family. (exh Paris, Grand Palais, 1974-75: De David à Delacroix ... cat. no. 10, fig. 80)
[Drouais Pa] Drouais, François Hubert (1727-1775). The Children of the Doyen Bermond, President de la Cour d'Aix-en-Provence. London art market (1931). They have a tiny hurdy-gurdy and a triangle. There is an unplayed tambourine. (Tredegar sale, Curtis and Henson, London, 20-23.VII.1931)
XI: Still Life
[Riesener Ma] Riesener, Jean Henri (1734-1806). Musical Instruments. London, Wallace Collection. marquetry table top. Includes a hurdy-gurdy, treble (pardessus?) viol, flute, musette, oboe and tambourine (J/B). (Die Weltkunst 48 [1978] 1016)
XII: Decorative Elements
See also Still Life.
[BI Paris 1743/44] Lebas, Jacques Philippe (1707-1783)? Title page of Jean-Marie Leclair (the elder), VI Concerto. Paris, the composer, with Boivin & Le Clerc, Paris [1743/44]. engraving. Several musical instruments, including a tambourine (J). (Fraenkel no. 128)
[BI Paris 1775] Gravelot, Hubert François (1699-1733). Passe-partout title page border. engraving. Many musical instruments, including a tambourine (J/B). (Fraenkel no. 133, title page of Christoph Willibald Gluck, L'Arbre enchanté. Paris, Des Lauriers, 1775)
XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor
Fêtes/Danses Champêtres: [Lallemand Pa] Lallemand, Jean-Baptiste (1710-1803?). Fête champêtre. New York art market (1951). Includes a man playing a violin and a woman playing a tambourine. (Connoisseur 128 [1951] December ad p. lxxviii)
Garden Parties: [Guerin Pa] Guerin, François (ca.1730-1791). Music Party. location unknown. Includes a tambourine on the ground. (catalog of the Gallery Stanislawa Augusta. Lwow 1932. no. 367, pl. 18)
Idylls: [Ta New York Met] French (Gobelins), 18th century. Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. tapestry. The pile of musical instruments in the foreground includes a tambourine. (Art Bulletin 46 [1964] fig. 19 after p. 154 [tiny reproduction])
[Ta **] French (Beauvais) (cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Oudry), 1730. Le Balanceur/The See-Saw. location not recorded. tapestry. A woman (pseudo-peasant) plays a tambourine. (Opperman 1977, p. 1195 [poor reproduction])
[Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770). La Musique (engraving title). Paris, Musée Cognac-Jay. A young man plays a guitar as a young woman sings. There are an unplayed guitar, musette and tambourine. Engraved by Pierre Aveline. (Hirth no. 3007) NB: there may not be a tambourine in the painting.
[Boucher Pa] _______. Pastorale (1761). New York art market (1950). Includes an unplayed tambourine. (Stehli sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 30.XI.1950 [ok reproduction])
[Boucher Pa] _______. The Fountain of Love/Shepherds and Shepherdesses (1748). London art market (1926). Includes a figure playing a recorder and an unplayed tambourine. (Michelham sale, Hampton, London, 23-24.XI.1926)
[Fragonard Pa] Fragonard, Jean Honoré (1732-1806). The Lover Crowned, from the Progress of Love series (1771-1773). New York, Frick Collection. There is a tambourine on the ground (J/B). (The Frick Collection. An Illustrated Catalogue, II: Paintings -- French, Italian and Spanish. New York 1968. p. 101 [ok reproduction])
Landscapes: [Natoire Dr] Natoire, Charles Joseph (1700-1777). Italian Autumn Landscape with a Pastoral Scene and an Offering to Pan. Vienna, Albertina. drawing. Includes a shepherd playing a woodwind instrument and women playing tambourine and triangle (?). (O. Benesch. Master Drawings in the Albertina ... New York 1967. color pl. XXI opp. no.216)
[Volaire Pa] Volaire, Pierre-Jacques (1729-a.1802). Evening by the Bay of Naples (1784). Naples, Palazzo Reale, inv. 4192. Includes a party with a bonfire on the beach, with many dancers accompanied by a man playing a large, lute-like plucked stringed instrument and a female child playing a tambourine. There may be more musicians. unimp. (exh Naples, 1979-80: Civiltà del '700 a Napoli 1734-1799. vol. I, no. 184, p. 343 [ample reproduction, but not good for details])
Street Scenes: [Sablet Pa] Sablet, Jacques (1749-1803). Dance in Naples (1784). Drottningholm Slot, Inv. DRH 79. A couple dances accompanied by a man playing a mandolin and three women playing large tambourines (JJ, with one or two strings of pellet bells strung from one side of the frame to the other). Two children tussle with another tambourine. MENTIONABLE (MgB IV/4, p. 113)
[C J Vernet Pa] Vernet, Claude Joseph (1714-1789). La fraîche matinée. Avignon, Musée Calvet. A couple dances (the woman with castanets), accompanied by men playing violin and oboe and women playing a plucked stringed instrument and a tambourine (there is a string of pellet bells hung across the frame and a pair of castanets lying on the head). (F. Ingersoll-Smouse. Joseph Vernet, peintre de marine ... Paris 1926. cat. no. 229, pl. XXVI [poor reproductin], as formerly coll. Th. Bonjean; A. P. de Mirimonde. L'iconographie musicals sous les rois Bourbons ... Paris 1975-77. vol. 2, fig. 58)
Views: [Gros Pa] Gros, Pierre du (1733-1803) and Giovanni Volpato (1748-1810). View of the Villa Borghese. Frankfurt am Main, Goethe Museum. Several women dance in a circle, accompanied by a woman playing a huge tambourine. (E. Beutler and J. Rumpf. Bilder aus dem Frankfurter Goethe Museum. Frankfurt am Main 1949. no. 66 -- text says there is a flute)
[Gros Pr] _______. Vuë de la Villa Borghese à Rome. New York art market (1966). water color and gouache over an etched outline. Several women dance in a circle, accompanied by a woman playing a large tambourine. (Burlington 138 [1966] December ad p. vii [color reproduction]; Burlington 139 [1997] June ad p. xiii [fine color reproduction]) Very similar to the above entry.
[C J Vernet Pa] Vernet, Claude Joseph (1714-1789). View of Sorrento/The Italian Gondola. St. Petersburg, Hermitage. Dancers are accompaned by a players of a mandora/large mandolin and a huge tambourine. (Vis. Coll. 375.V594.90[c])
Village/Rustic Scenes: [H J van Blarenberghe min] Blarenberghe, Henri Joseph van (1741-1826). Village Dance. Paris art market (1909). miniature. Musicians play violin and tambourine. (sale, Drouot, Paris, 23-24.IV.1909)
[Flipart Pa] Flipart, Charles Joseph (1721-1797). Tarantella on the Banks of a River. Rome art market (1929). Figures play a mandola/large mandolin and a tambourine. (Jandolo sale, Galleria d'arte, Rome, 20.II-6.III.1929)
[Saint-Non Pr] Saint-Non, Jean Claude Richard de (1730-1797). Danse de la Tarantele a Capo di Pausilipo, from his Voyage pittoresque ou Description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicilie. A man plays a mandola (?) and a woman plays a tambourine. A boy plays a triccaballacca, and a dancing couple play castanets. (FS John Henry van der Meer. Tutzing 1987. p. 518; MGG IX, Taf. 76/2)
Other: [Ta Paris art market] French (Gobelins) (Cartoon by Amédée van Loo [1719-1795]), 1775. The Dance in the Seraglio Gardens. Paris art market (1987). A woman dances to her tambourine, accompanied by a shawmist and a black cymbal player. (Burlington 129 [1987] April ad p. xxiv)
XIV: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor
Ateliers: [Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770). The Artist in his Studio. Paris Louvre. The artist is a boy. There is a tiny tambourine on the floor. unimp. (Arte illustrata IV 45/46[Nov.- Dec. 1971] 62, with referenct to exhibi Paris, Louvre, 1971: François Boucher)
Parties/Music Parties: [Mondon-Aveline Pr] Pierre Alexandre Aveline (1710?-1760) after Mondon le fils (fl. 1736-1745). "Le Tem[p]s De La Soirée." engraving. Musicians play violin, cello and woodwind; a comedian plays a woodwind (?); and a (savoyard?) man dances, accompanied by a man playing a tambourine. (A. P. de Mirimonde. L'iconographie musicals sous les rois Bourbons ... Paris 1975-77. vol. 2, fig. 30)
XV: Miscellaneous Figures
Dancers: [Dr Anon.] French, 18th century. Camille Véronèse (1735-1768), Dancer at the Théâtre Itailen, in Paris. no location. drawing. She dances and plays a tambourine. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 27 (1945) 277)
Musicians (amateur and professional): [Po (Mennecy-Villeroy) Providence RISD] French (Mennecy-Villeroy), ca. 1770. Musicians. Providence, Rhode Island School of Design. porcelain figure group. Includes an unplayed tambourine. (1965 catalog of the Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century. pl. 33)
[Boucher Dr] Boucher, François (1703-1770). Study for a Wall Painting. Berlin Kunstbibliothek. drawing. Figures include musicians with a lute, a small woodwind (held) and a tambourine. (Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Die französischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Kritischer Katalog. Ed. E. Berckenhagen. Berlin 1970. No. Hdz 2983, p. 246 [ok reproduction])
[Pajou Sc] Pajou, Augustine (1730-1809). A Woman with two Infants, Holding a Tambourine (1774). Paris art market (1987). terra cotta figure group. The tambourine is (J/B). (Burlington 129 [1987] April ad p. xxiv)
[G J de Saint-Aubin Dr] Saint-Aubin, Gabriel Jacques de (1724-1780). Street Musicians. Paris art market (1991). drawing. A man plays a violin, a woman plays a cello and a boy dances and plays a tambourine. (Burlington 133 [1991] April ad p. ix)
Putti: See also Allegory, Seasons.
[Boucher Pa] Boucher, François (1703-1770). Nymph and Cupids with Musical Emblems. London, Wallace Collection. One of the cupids cavorts with a tambourine. Very similar version (1752), but nymph with braided hair: London art market (1956). (sale, Christie's, .VI.1956, lot 28; Burlington 98 [1956] May ad p. v [small reproduction])
[Boucher Pa] _______. Cupids with the Attributes of Music. no location. Includes an unplayed recorder and tambourine. (Vis. Coll. 375.B662.4Ca[a])
[Taval Pa] Taraval, Hughes (**). Cupids at Play. London, Wallace Collection. Boucher-esque putti, one of whom plays a tambourine (J/BB). unimp. (Burlington 129 [1987] 519)
[DACH] GERMAN, AUSTRIAN AND SWISS ARTISTS -- 18th CENTURY
I: Old Testament
Other: See also Allegory, Death, Dance of.
[Platzer Pa] Platzer, Johann Georg (1702-1761). Samson's Revenge. Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, Barockmuseum (Lower Belvedere). Includes an unplayed shawm and tambourine in the right foreground. (Österreichische Galerie. Das Barock Museum im unteren Belvedere. Vienna 1923. no. 184, pl. 119 [poor reproduction], R/1934, p. 215 [poor reproduction])
II: New Testament
Parables -- Prodigal Son: See Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor, Parties/Music Parties (Platzer).
V: Mythology
Bacchanals: [Gl art market] German (Potsdam-Zechlin, engraved by Esaias Rosbach), ca. 1735. Bacchanalian procession. London art market (1979). engraved glass goblet. A man plays a shawm, a faun has panpipes, and a child has a tambourine. unimp. (Connoisseur 201 [1979] 279)
[Janneck Pa] Janneck, Franz Christoph (1703-1761). Bacchus Discovers Ariadne on Naxos. Vienna art market (1972, 1978). A satyr plays panpipes and a woman (with anklets and wristlets of bells) plays a tambourine (JJ/B). MENTIONABLE (clear and prominent) (exh Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, Summer 1972, no. 29 [fine reproduction]; =? sale Dorotheum, Vienna, 622. Kunstauktion, 12-15.XII.1978 (Die Weltkunst 48 [1978] 2728 [minuscule, useless reproduction])
[Platzer Pa] Platzer, Johann Georg (1702-1761). Bacchanal. Innsbruck LMF, Inv. 194. Numerous musical figures, including a dancing woman with a tambourine (and Amor beside her). (W. Salmen. Bilder zur Geschichte der Musik in Österreich. Innsbruck 1979. p. 65)
[Platzer Pa] _______. Bacchus Discovers Ariadne on Naxos. Kassel, Galerie. Several musical figures, including a bacchante dancing to her tambourine and a satyr with a jingle ring. (A. Pigler. Barockthemen ... Budsapest 1956. vol. II, p. 47 [useless reproduction])
[Platzer Pa] _______. Bacchanale. location unknown (Graz?). Several musical figures, including a bacchante dancing to her tambourine. MENTIONABLE (prominent) (exh Darmstadt, 1914: Deutsches Barock und Rokoko. Ed. G. Biermann. fig. 94)
Muses: [Fr Königsbronn] Anon., ca. 1775. Apollo and the Muses. Königsbronn, Rathaus, Fürstenstube. ceiling fresco. One of the Muses has a tambourine. (Die Kunst- und Altertumsdenkmale im Königsreich Württemberg. III/2: Oberamt Heidenheim. Esslingen a. N. 1913. p. 216 [poor reproduction])
[Wink Fr] Wink, Thomas Christian (1738-1797). Apollo and the Muses. Schloss Zell an der Pram, Festsaal. fresco. One of the Muses has a tambourine. (Alte und moderne Kunst 20/Sonderhefte [1975] 49)
[Zick Pa] Zick, Januarius (1730-1797). Allegory on Newton's Contribution to the Law of Gravity. Hannover, Niedersächsische Landesgalerie. One of the Muses has a tambourine. (Die Weltkunst 49 [1979] 925)
Other: [Kauffmann Pr] Anon. after Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807). Nymphs Adorning a Herm. engraving. There is a tambourine on the ground in the foreground. (Burlington 112 [1970] 499 [ok reproduction])
[Wenzinger Fr] Wenzinger, Christian (1710-1797). Mythological Subject. Freiburg i. Br., Haus "zum schönen Eck." ceiling fresco. Musicians in galleries include a player of a tambourine. unimp. (H. Ginter. Südwestdeutsche Kirchenmalerei des Barock ... Augsburg 1930. fig. 34 [fair reproduction], as ca. 1761)
VI: Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures
[Füssli Pa] Füssli, Johannes Heinrich (1741-1825). The Awaking of Titania. Zürich, Kunsthaus. One figure blows a woodwind instrument, another leans on a tambourine (?). (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 96 [December 1980] La chronique des arts no. 1343, p. 16 [small reproduction])
VII: Allegory
Death, Dance of: [BI Nuremberg 1736] Anon. Death and the Miller, from Solomon van Rustingh's Schau-Platz des Todes. Nuremberg 1736. engraving. Death plays a tambourine (B). (D. Briesemeister. Bilder des Todes. Unterscheidheim 1970. Abb. E42)
[BI Nuremberg 1736] _______. Sodom and Gomorrah. Death plays a tambourine [B]. (Briesemeister Abb. E39)
Music/Poetry/Liberal Arts: [Günther Pa] Günther, Matthäus (1705-1788). Minerva as the Protector of the Arts and Sciences. Salzburg, Barockmuseum. bozzetto for a ceiling fresco. Numerous female figures with musical instruments, including one with a tambourine. (Alte und moderne Kunst 11/H. 87 [1966] 48, with reference to exh Salzburg, Residenzmuseum, 1966: Visionen des Barock)
Seasons: [Platzer Pa] Platzer, Johann Georg (1702-1761). Autumn, from a Four Seasons series. Minneapolis, Institute of Art. Street musicians play shawm and tambourine (child). (1971 catalog: European Paintings. no. 3c, p. 17; W. Salmen. Bilder zur Geschichte der Musik in Österreich. Innsbruck 1979. p. 66)
Temperaments: [Platzer Pa] Platzer, Johann Georg (1702-1761). The Four Temperaments. Warsaw MN (ex Breslau, Schlesisches Museum). The Sanguine Temperament is represented by a dancing couple accompanied by men playing violin and oboe and a woman playing a tambourine. MENTIONABLE (1964 catalog, no. 165; 1969 catalog, vol. II, no. 984 [useless reproduction]; A. P. de Mirimonde. Astrologie et musique. Geneva 1977. pl. 114)
Vice/Virtue: [Master AD] Monogrammist AD (Augsburg), 18th century. Hercules at the Crossroads. Paderborn, Metropolitankapitel (Domschatz). drawing. A figure holds a lute. There are unplayed viola, shawm (?) and tambourine. (exh Brühl, Schloss Augustusburg, 1961: Kurfürst Clemens August, Landesherr und Mäzen des 18. Jahrhunderts. cat. no. 522, Abb. 147, as shortly before 1735)
XII: Decorative Elements
[G F Schmidt Pr] Schmidt, Georg Friedrich (1712-1775). "Executio Anima Compositionis." engraving. Many musical instruments in the border, including a tambourine. (MgB IV/3, p. 102; exh Bremen KH, 1971: Bildkunst im Zeitalter Johann Sebastian Bachs. cat. no. 243, p. 275)
XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor
Garden Parties: [Platzer Pa] Platzer, Johann Georg (1702-1761). Garden Party (1736). private collection. Includes a woman in the background playing a tambourine. (Alte und moderne Kunst 24/H. 162 [1979] 32 [fair reproduction])
[Platzer Pa] _______. The Minuet. London art market (1967). Dancers accompanied by men playing violin and shawm, and a woman playing a tambourine. (exh, Koetser Gallery, London, 4.X-15.XII. 1967 [fair reproduction])
Landscapes: [Hackert Pa] Hackert, Jacob Philipp (1739-1807). Music-making Shepherds in a Roman Landscape (Naples 1786). Munich, London art market (1978). A goatherd plays a woodwind instrument (shawm?) and a peasant woman plays a tambourine. (sale, Christie's, New York, 8.I.1978; Die Weltkunst 47 [1977] 2617 [reproduction useless for details]; Die Weltkunst 48 [1978] 728 [ditto])
Village/Rustic Scenes: [Harper Pa] Harper, Adolf Friedrich (1725-1806). Italian Peasants Dancing Beside an Inn. Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle. Figures play plucked string and bagpipe. There is an unplayed tambourine beside a seated woman. Two couples dance. (1962 cat./exh: Deutsche Meister 1540-1800. pl. 39)
[Kniep Dr] Kniep, Christoph Heinrich (1748-1825). Tarantella. Weimar, Nationale Forschungs- und Gedenkstätten. drawing. A woman dances with castanets and two other women have tambourines. (MgB IV/4, p. 113)
[Platzer Pa] Platzer, Johann Georg (1702-1761). Rustic Scene. London art market (1969). Includes a man playing an oboe and a woman playing a tambourine. unimp. (sale, Sotheby's, 26.III.1969; Alte und moderne Kunst 14/H. 105 [1969] 57 [small reproduction])
XIV: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor
Parties/Music Parties: [Platzer Pa] Platzer, Johann Georg (1702-1761). Musicale. Nuremberg Gnm, Inv. 1329. Includes a tambourine (B) on the floor with a mask beside it (also a recorder in the crease of an open music book). (W. Haacke. Am Klavier. Königstein im Taunus 1968. p. 38, as ca. 1740; W. Salmen. Bilder zur Geschichte der Musik in Österreich. Innsbruck 1979. p. 77 [useless reproduction, reversed]; Deutsche Kunst und Kultur im Germanischen Nationalmuseum. Nuremberg 1952, p. 179, 2/1960, p. 191, as ca. 1740; Early Music 9 [1981] 447 [poor reproduction])
[Platzer Pa] _______. Four Figures Around a Table. Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, Barockmuseum (Lower Belvedere). A cavalier holds a violin and a woman (?) has a tambourine. Wine, women and song. (Österreichische Galerie. Das Barock Museum im unteren Belvedere. Vienna 1923. no. 185, pl. 120)
[Platzer Pa] _______. Musicale. Berlin art market (1928). Includes an unplayed tambourine. (Leningrader sale, Lepke, Berlin, 1-7.XI.1928 [fair reproduction])
[Platzer Pa] _______. An Interior with Cavaliers Gambling (The Dissipations of the Prodigal Son?). London art market (1970). A figure plays a guitar. Not played: cello, oboe, tambourine. (sale, Sotheby's, 15.VII.1970; Burlington 112 [1970] July ad p. x)
[Platzer Pa] _______. Music Party. Vienna art market (1972, 1978). Includes, on the floor in the center foreground, an unplayed oboe (in the crease of an open music book), a tambourine and a mask. There is also a painting of Bacchus and Ariadne on the wall, with a satyr playing panpipes and a bacchante playing a tambourine. MENTIONABLE (exh Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1972, Summer, no. 30 [fine color reproduction]; sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 619. Kunstauktion, 14-17.III.1978; Die Weltkunst 48 [1978] 352 [useless reproduction]; Goff's Park sale, Knight, Frank and Rutley, London, 21.7.26, as by Johann Victor Platzer [1665-1708])
[Schenau Pa] Schenau (Zeisig), Johann Eleazar (1734-1806). Musicale. Dresden Ksk. drawing. Women sing and play a keyboard instrument and a harp. Not played: cello, cittern and tambourine. (exh Darmstadt, 1914: Deutsches Barock und Rokoko. Ed. G. Biermann. vol. II, Abb. 1002; MgB IV/3, p. 95)
XV: Miscellaneous Figures
Angels: [organ ex Danzig/Gdansk] Meissner, Johann Heinrich (**) (figures). Organ (prospect 1757/60, figures 1760). ex Danzig/Gdansk, Marienkirche, large organ (destroyed in 1945). One of the angels plays a tambourine (B). MENTIONABLE (W. Drost. Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Danzig, IV: Die Marienkirche ... Stuttgart 1963. [Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des deutschen Ostens, A4] pl. 163, 165a [ok detail]; W. Haacke. Orgeln. Königstein im Taunus n.d. p. 16 [distant view], builder was Julius Antonius Friese, 1585, altered in 1760)
[Günther Fr] Günther, Matthäus (1705-1788). The Glory of St. Benedict Before the Trinity (1763). Rott am Inn, Stiftskirche. fresco. One of the several angels plays a tambourine. (H. Tintelnot. Die barocke Freskomalerei in Deutschland ... Munich 1951. p. 100 [detail])
[Knoller Fr] Knoller, Martin (1725-1804). Assumption of the Virgin (1769). Ettal, Marienmünster, Presbyterium. cupola fresco. One of the angels plays a tambourine. (M. Seidel. Ad gloriam Dei. Neue Bilder vom Benediktinerkloster Ettal. Stuttgart [195-?] pl. 22; P. S. Wellenhofer. Ettal. Ettal n.d. p. 60 [detail])
Dancers: [Pa Kiel-Rammsee] German (Schleswig-Holstein), 1763. Scene with Wine-Making. Kiel-Rammsee, Schleswig-Holsteinsches Freilichtmuseum. painted cupboard. Peasants. A man plays a flute (sort of) and a woman dances to her tambourine (with strings strung across the frame). unimp. (A. Kamphausen. Bauernmalerei in Schleswig-Holstein. Heide 1971. fig. 32)
[Po (Strasbourg) art market] German (Strasbourg, manufacture Paul Hannong), 1754-61. A Pair of Peasant Dancers. Ludwigsburg art market (1979). fayence figures. The man plays castanets and the woman plays a tambourine (?). (Die Weltkunst 49 [1979] 2758)
Musicians (amateur and professional): See also Allegory, Seasons.
[Po (Hoechst) Mainz AuG] German (Hoechst), ca. 1765. Chinese Woman with a Tambourine. Mainz, Altertumsmuseum und Gemäldegalerie. (1964 catalog: Hoechster Fayencen und Porzellane, no. 140)
[Po (Vienna) art market] Austrian (Vienna) (model by Anton Payer), ca. 1755. Miner Musician. Vienna art market (1928). porcelain figure. He pays a tambourine. (Wiener-Porzellan Sammlung Karl Mayer. Vienna 1928. =sale catalog, Vienna 1928. no. 342 [tambourine], no. 343 [flute], both Taf. 104)
Putti: [BI Paris 1770] Pierre Claude de La Gardette. First Design for the Organ of the Abteikirche, Weingarten, from Dom de Celles, L'art du facteur d'orgues. Paris 1770. vol. III, pl. 77. engraving. One of the several musical putti plays a tambourine. (facsimile: Kassel 1965 [Documenta musicologica, 25]; MGG, vol. 4, Taf. 49; Early Music 1 [1973] 130)
[BI Vienna 1760] Tischler, Anton (1721-ca.1780). Three Cupids, vignette from Metastasio, Alcide al Bivio. Vienna 1760. engraving. Includes unplayed shawm and tambourine. (E. Panofsky. Hercules am Scheidewege ... Berlin 1930. Taf. LVI, Abb. 83)
[Po (Meissen) art market] German (Meissen), 18th century. A Pair of Candleholders. Zürich art market (1981). porcelain. Each has a musical putto (wearing the savoyard's tricorne hat), one playing a bagpipe, the other, a large tambourine or frame drum (with pellet-bells on the rim), hung from a neck strap and played like a frame drum. (Burlington 123 [1981] Oct. ad p. xxi [minuscule color reproduction])
[Po (Meissen) art market] German (Meissen), 18th century. A Clock, bearing the protrait and arms of Augustus the Strong. British art market (1985). Includes two musical putti (wearing the savoyard's tricorne hats), one playing a bagpipe, the other, a large tambourine or frame drum (with pellet-bells on the rim), hung from a neck strap and played like a frame drum. (Burlington 127 (1985) June ad p. xxi (fine color[ reproduction])
[Wagner Sc] Wagner, Johann Peter (1730-1809). Putti. Würzburg, Hofgarten. sculptured garden figure. They play a woodwind and a tambourine (B). (Musica calendar, 1977: 12-25 June [fine reproduction])
[EP] IBERIAN ARTISTS -- 18th CENTURY
I: Old Testament
Jephthah: [Preciado de la Vega Pa] Preciado de la Vega, Francisco (op.1733-1739). The Return of Jephthah. Madrid?, Academia de San Fernando. Two women have tambourines (one held, one played). Other figures play harp and triangle. (F. J. Sáchez Cantón. Escultura y pintura del siglo XVIII. Madrid n.d. [Ars hispaniae, 17] fig. 132)
XV: Miscellaneous Figures
Musicians (amateur and professional): [Pr Anon.] Spanish, 18th century. "Coplas de la jota con estrivillo, y seguidillas ..." woodcut song sheet. A street musician plays a guitar and a woman dances to her tambourine. Folk-art depictions. (F. V. Grunfeld. The Art and Times of the Guitar ... New York 1969. p.160)
[I] ITALIAN ARTISTS -- 18th CENTURY
I: Old Testament
David Dancing Before the Ark/The Transporting of the Ark of the Covenant: [Elmo Pa] Elmo, Serafino (18th century). The Transporting of the Ark of the Covenant. Muro Leccese, Chiesa dell'Annunziata. One of the musicians plays a tambourine. unimp. (A. Antonaci. L'arte a Muro Luccese. Galatina [1974]. opp. p. 176 [color reproduction])
Triumph of David: [Fontebasso Pa] Fontebasso, Francesco (1709-1769). The Triumph of David. private collection. Including dancing women playing harp and two tambourines (and perhaps one more musical instrument). (R. Pallucchini. La pittura veneziana del settecento. Venice 1960. fig. 399; =? Pigler I, p. 135 [poor reproduction])
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] Tiepolo, Giandomenico (1727-1804). The Triumph of David (1759). Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Graphische Sammlung, Inv. no. 1519. drawing. The procession is lead by dancing women playing cymbals and tambourine. (exh Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Graphische Sammlung, 1970: Tiepolo. Zeichnungen. fig. 158. A study for one of the eight grisaille frescoes on the side walls of the Oratorio of the Purità di Maria Santissima in Udine.)
[Gd Tiepolo Fr] _______. The Triumph of David (1759). Udine, Oratorio della Purità di Maria Santissima. fresco. The precession is led by dancing women playing cymbals and tambourine. (A. Mariuz. Giandomenico Tiepolo. Venice [197-]. fig. 158; A. Rizzi. Storia dell'arte in Friuli. Il settecento. n.p. 1967. fig. 93)
Jephthah: [Cignaroli Pa] Cignaroli, Vittorio Amedeo (1730-1800). The Daughter of Jephthah. Turin MC. One of the women with the daughter of Jephthah plays a tambourine. MENTIONABLE (1963 catalog, fig. 265)
V: Mythology
See also Miscellaneous Figures, Putti.
Bacchanals: [Galliari Pa] Galliari, Bernardino (1707-1794). Bacchus and Ariadne. Turin, R. Pinacoteca. oil sketch for a curtain. Figures play flute, curved horn and tambourine. very unimp. (P. Toesca. Torino. Bergamo 1911. [Italia artistica, 62] p. 94)
[Zuccarelli Pa] Zuccarelli, Francesco (1702-1788). Bacchanal. Venice Accademia. Satyrs and bacchantes dance accompanied by a bacchante playing a tambourine and a female satyr playing a jingle ring with a row pellet bells strung across it. (C. Donzelli. I pittori veneti del settecento. Florence 1957. fig. 364 [poor reproduction])
Satyrs/Fauns: See also Mythology, Bacchanals.
[Gd Tiepolo Fr] Tiepolo, Giandomenico (1727-1804). Dancing Satyrs. Venice, Cà Rezzonico, Camera dei Satiri. fresco. Satyrs have panpipes, cymbals and a tambourine. (Burlington 116 [1974] June supplement fig. 84)
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] _______. Dance of the Satyrs. private collection. drawing. The dancing satyrs are accompanied by a satyr playing a tambourine. (Burlington 116 [1974] June supplement fig. 82)
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] _______. Fauns and Female Fauns. New York art market (1974). drawing. There is an unplayed tambourine on the ground. (Burlington 116 [1974] June supplement fig. 81)
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] _______. Family of Satyrs. private collection. drawing. There is an unplayed tambourine on the ground. (Burlington 116 [1974] June supplement fig. 76)
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] _______. Aged Centaur, Crouching, in Amicable Conversation with a Female Faun. private collection. drawing. There is an unplayed tambourine on the ground. (Burlington 116 [1974] June supplement fig. 43)
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] _______. Centaur Crouching, Flinging Himself on to a Female Faun. location unknown. drawing. There is an unplayed tambourine on the ground. (Burlington 116 [1974] June supplement fig. 39)
Other: [Gd Tiepolo Dr] Tiepolo, Giandomenico (1727-1804). Nessus as an Old Man Rapes Dejanira. London, University, Witt Collection. drawing. There is a tambourine (?) on the ground. (Burlington 116 [1974] June supplement fig. 27)
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] _______. Nessus and Dejanira. Vienna Albertina, Inv. 24/073. v314. drawing. Includes an unplayed tambourine on the ground. (Burlington 116 [1974] June supplement fig. 25)
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] _______. Nessus, Rearing, Seen from Behind, Raping Dejanira. private collection. drawing. There is an unplayed tambourine on the ground. (Burlington 116 [1974] June supplement fig. 22)
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] _______. Nessus as an Old Man Attacking Dejanira. private collection. drawing. There is an unplayed tambourine on the ground. (Burlington 116 [1974] June supplement fig. 31)
VII: Allegory
Seasons: [Fr Reggia di Caserta] Anon., second half, 18th century. Summer, from a Three (sic) Seasons series. Reggia di Caserta, sala dell'Estate. fresco. Includes a tambourine (with two perpendicular rows of pellet bells) perched on a sort of tripod. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 107)
[Fr Reggia di Caserta] _______. As above. Includes musical putti and an unplayed tambourine (with two perpendicular rows of pellet bells). (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 107)
[Fr Reggia di Caserta] _______. Autumn. Sala dell'Autunno. Young Bacchus with a small tambourine and a nymph. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 109)
VII: Allegory
Triumphs: [Gd Tiepolo Pa] Tiepolo, Giandomenico (1727-1804). Triumph of Hercules. Madrid Prado (Coll. Thyssen-Bornemisza). Includes a woman playing a tambourine. (A. Mariuz. Giandomenico Tiepolo. Venice [197-]. fig. 183 [of paintings])
Vice/Virtue: [Batoni Pa] Batoni, Pompeo (1708-1787). The Choice of Hercules. private collection (Liechtenstein Coll.). On the ground, right, an oboe and a tambourine. (E. Panofsky. Hercules am Scheidewege ... Berlin 1930. pl. LV, Abb. 82; Oesterreichische Galerie, Mitteilungen 17 [1973] fig. 10)
X: Portraits
[Pa Caserta] Anon., second half, 18th century. Portrait of a Young Man with a Tambourine. Caserta, Palazzo Reale. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 109 [fair reproduction])
XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor
Fairs/Festivals: [Fabris Pa] Fabris, Pietro (doc.1768-1772). Village Fair. Naples, Museo di San Martino. In the foreground several couples dance, accompanied by a man playing a colascione and two women (?) playing large tambourines. In the background, two children dance, accompanied by a man playing a colascione and a woman playing a tambourine. (G. Doria et al. Settecento napoletano. Turin 1962. Tav. XXVIII [color reproduction])
[Monaldi Pa] Monaldi, Paolo (doc. 1753-1767), attr. Peasant Festivities. Orléans, Musée. A man plays a colascione and a woman holds a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 289) Also attr. Andrea Locatelli.
[Monaldi Pa] _______. Rustic Scene with Dancer. Genoa art market (1976). The dancer holds a bagpipe. Men play colascione and shawm (?), and a woman has a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 270). For another version (private collection) see Busiri Vici p. 271.
[Monaldi Pa] _______. Rustic Scene with Festival. location unknown. A man riding a donkey plays a colascione. A woman plays a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 276; =? Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 131. Doesn't quite match. After 1984 edn. of Busiri Vici.)
[Zocchi Dr] Zocchi, Giuseppe (1711-1767). The Church and Piazza of Santa Croce, Florence, with the Festa del Calcio (1738). New York, Pierpont Morgan Library. Includes a wagonload of revellers dressed as peasants, one of whom plays a tambourine. (Views of Florence and Tuscany by Giuseppe Zocchi. 77 Drawings from the Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Ed. E. E. Dee. Meriden CT 1968. no. 26 [travelling exhibit, 1968-69])
Garden Parties: [CI Parma 1769] Ennemond Alexandre Petitot (b. ca. 1730) after Bodoni (?). Descrizioni delle Feste celebrate in Parma ... per le ... Nozze di ... l'Infante Don Ferdinando colla Reale Arciduchessa Maria Amalia." engraving. Includes four dancers accompanied by a pipe and tabor player. One of the female dancers plays a tambourine. (C. Briganti. Curioso itinerario delle collezioni decali parmensi. Milan 1969. p. 64 [fair reproduction]; R. Levi Pisetzky. Storia del costume in Italia, IV. Milan 1967. fig. 11/12, after p. 20 [ok reproduction])
Idylls: [Bertuzzi Pa] Bertuzzi, Nicola (1710-1777) and Carlo Lodi (1701-1765). The Joys of Rustic Life/Le delizie della villeggiatura. private collection. Four women dance, accompanied by women playing a long-necked lute, a woodwind instrument and a tambourine. (R. Bacchelli et al. Emilia Romagna. Milan [1975]. p. 410; Le Collezioni d'Arte della Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna. I dipinti. Bologna 1972. Tav. 98, 106 [detail])
Landscapes: [Cignaroli Pa] Cignaroli, Vittorio Amedeo (1730-1800). Landscape. Turin, Palazzo Chiablese. Two peasants dance, accompanied by a man playing a woodwind instrument (shawm?) and a woman playing a tambourine. (V. Golzio. Seicento e settecento. Turin 1968. [Storia dell'arte classica e italiana, 4] p. 1207)
[Campo Pa] Campo, Angelo del (1735-1826). Landscape with Peasants and a Flock of Sheep (1772). Monte-Carlo art market. Includes men by the side of the road playing guitar and tambourine (with two rows of pellet bells strung at right angles across the frame). (Burlington 133 [1991] July back cover [color reproduction])
[Fabris Pa] Fabris, Pietro (doc.1768-1772). Landscape. private collection. There are two of them. One includes a serenade with a man playing a colascione and a woman playing a tambourine. The other has a dance accompanied by the same pair. (Vis. Coll. 372.F110.8[a])
[Monaldi Pa] Monaldi, Paolo (doc. 1753-1767). Landscape with Dancers beside a Tower (1767). private collection. Includes six dancers accompanied by men playing a colascione and a shawm and two women playing tambourines. MENTIONABLE if you want to mention a Monaldi. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. pp. 132-134)
[Monaldi Pa] _______. Landscape with a Swing (1767). private collection (originally for the Villa Chigi, Rome). A man, swinging on the swing, has a bagpipe. A woman plays a plucked stringed instrument, and another holds a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. pp. 130-131 [fine color detail]; Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 103 [detail], 138, after Busiri Vici, 1984 edition)
[Monaldi Pa] _______. Latinum landscape with the entrance to a castle (1767). private collection (originally for the dining room of the Villa Chigi, Rome). A couple dances accompanied by a man playing a woodwind instrument and a woman playing a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 126; Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 135 [detail], after 1984 edition of Busiri Vici)
[Monaldi Pa] _______ (figures) and Paolo Anesi. Landscape with a fountain and a pyramid (1767). private collection (originally for the dining room of the Villa Chigi, rome). Three figures dance accompanied by a man playing a plucked stringed instrument and a woman playing a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 128)
[Monaldi Pa] _______. Landscape with Figures. private collection (originally for Villa Chigi, Rome). Includes a peasant woman playing a tambourine. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 131 [detail?], after A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1984)
Street Scenes: [Falciatore Pa] Falciatore, Filippo (doc. 1728-1768). Tarantella in Mergallina. Detroit, Institute of Arts. A woman (with castanets) dances with a hunch-backed dwarf, accompanied by a man playing a large lute/mandora and a woman playing a huge tambourine. (exh Naples 1979-80: Civiltà del '700 a Napoli 1734-1799. no. 120a, p. 241 [small reproduction])
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] Tiepolo, Giandomenico (1727-1804). The Ballad Singers. (1791). Venice, Museo Correr. drawing. Several musicians, including a woman (?) playing a tambourine. (A. Mariuz. Giandomenico Tiepolo. Venice [197-]. fig. 27 [of drawings]; loan exh, 1963-64: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings from the Correr Museum. no. 112 [fine reproduction]. Italian (1964) as Diesgni veneti del settecento nel Museo Correr de Venezia. no. 109; exh Udine, 1971: Tiepolo. Ed. A. Rizzi. vol. II, p. 56; Burlington 105 [1963] 575)
[Gd Tiepolo Pa] _______. Dancing Dogs. location unknown. A peasant plays a bagpipe and a dancing woman plays a tambourine. (G. Mazzotti. Ville venete. Rome 1957. p. 400; exh Venice, Cà Rezzonico, 1937: Le feste e le maschere veneziane. Ed. G. Lorenzetti. fig. 30 [poor reproduction], as by Giambattista Tiepolo)
Views: [Vasi Pr] Vasi, Giuseppe (1710-1782). "Porta castello," (View of Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome). etching. Peasants dance, accompanied by men playing violin and woodwind and by a woman playing a tambourine. MENTIONABLE for atmosphere. (J. M. Wiesel. Rom in zeitgenössischen Darstellungen des 14. bis 19. Jahrhunderts. Herrenalb 1962. no. 67, as ca. 1750)
Village/Rustic Scenes: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor, Operatic/Theatrical Scenes.
[Presepe no location] Italian (Naples), 18th century. Strolling Musicians Outside an Inn. no location. presepe group. A large group of street musicians, including a woman playing a tambourine. (Connoisseur 129 [1952] 30 [poor reproduction, no location])
[Anesi Pa] Anesi, Paolo (op. ca. 1725-1766) (figures by a collaborator?). Il saltarello. private collection. A couple dances, a man plays a plucked stringed instrument, and a woman plays a tambourine. unimp. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 250)
[Fabris Pa] Fabris, Pietro (doc.1768-1772). Party Beside the Bay of Naples. London art market (1985). Includes men playing mandolin and mandola and a woman playing a large tambourine (JJ). (Burlington 127 [1985] September supplement p. 100 [color reproduction])
[P Longhi Pa] Longhi, Pietro (1702-1785). Invitation to the Dance. private collection. Two peasants dance, accompanied by a tambourine player. (Arte illustrata IV, 41/42 (1971) May-June p. 21 [fine color reproduction]; Pantheon 29 [1971] 43 [fine color reproduction])
[Monaldi Pa] Monaldi, Paolo (doc. 1753-1767). Rustic Dance. private collection. A couple dances accompanied by a shawmist. A woman holds a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 287)
[Monaldi Pa] _______. Il saltarello. Rome art market (1976?). A couple dances, accompanied by a bagpiper. A woman holds a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 265)
[Monaldi Pa] _______. Rustic Scene with Dancers. Rome art market (1976). A couple dances, accompanied by a lute player. A woman holds a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 272)
[Monaldi Pa] _______. A Pair of Rustic Scenes. location unknown. In one of them a woman holds a tambourine and there is perhaps a player of a plucked stringed instrument. In the other a figure plays a lute/colascione. unimp. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 280)
[Monaldi Pa] _______. Scene with Peasants and a Large Swing. location unknown. Includes a woman playing a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 282)
[Monaldi Pa] _______. Peasants Resting Beside an Inn. private collection (originally for the Villa Chigi, Rome). Includes a woman holding a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 152, 153 [fine color detail])
[Monaldi Pa] _______. Rustic Scene with Saltarello. Genoa art market (1976). Includes a joyful procession of peasants, including a woman playing a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 270) Variant: private collection (Rome). (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 271; Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 136, after Busiri Vici, 1984 edition)
[Mosca presepe] Mosca, Lorenzo, Nicola Somma and C (?). Celebrano. La Tarantella. private collection. presepe. Includes a man playing a plucked stringed instrument, a female dancer with castanets and a male dancer with a tambourine. (F. Mancini. Il presepe napolitano nella collezione Eugenio Catello. Florence 1965. no. 22 [fine color reproduction])
[Zais Pa] Zais, Giuseppe (1709-1781). Dancing Peasants. Venice, Accademia. The dancers are accompanied by a tambourine player. (C. Donzelli. I pittori veneti del settecento. Florence 1957. fig. 349)
[Zais Pa] _______. Rustic Dance. private collection. Two dance, accompanied by a woman playing a tambourine. (R. Pallucchini. La pittura veneziana del settecento. Venice 1960. fig. 528; exh Bergamo, Galleria Lorenzelli, 1969: Venezia 700. Francesco Guardi e il suo tempo ... pl. XXI [color reproduction])
XIV: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor
Domestic Scenes: [P Longhi Pa] Longhi, Pietro (1702-1785). Insalata del Milord. private collection. A woman plays a tambourine while others work. (T. Pignatti. Pietro Longhi ... London 1969. fig. 83; T. Pignatti. Pietro Longhi dal disegno alla pittura. Venice 1975. fig. 10; exh Venice, Palazzo Ducale, 1969: Dal Ricci al Tiepolo. I Pittori di figura del Settecento a Venezia. Ed. P. Zampetti. p. 288, as from the early 1740s)
Operatic/Theatrical Scenes: [Pa Naples Conservatorio S Pietro a Majella] Italian (Neapolitan), 18th century. L'Osteria di Marechiaro (comedy by F. Cerlone), scene from an opera buffa by Giacomo Insanguine, 1768. Naples, Conservatorio S. Pietro a Majella. The scene is outdoors, beside an inn beside the Bay of Naples. Village men play violin and a stage-prop lute, a woman plays a large tambourine with a string of pellet bells strung across it, and a couple dances. (Komma p. 207; MGG VI, Taf. 58)
Parties/Music Parties: [P Longhi Pa] Longhi, Pietro (1702-1785). La Furlana. Venice, Cà Rezzonico. A woman plays a tambourine. (T. Pignatti. Pietro Longhi ... London 1969. fig. 92; 1960 catalog of the Museo Correr, p. 212, as ca. 1740-50) Variant: Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art. (Pignatti fig. 93) Variant: Venice, Pinacoteca Querini-Stampalia. (Pignatti fig. 94; D. Gioseffi. Pittura veneziana del settecento. Bergamo 1956. p. 53)
[Longhi Pa] _______. Peasants Dancing the Furlana. location unknown. A woman plays a tambourine. (The same woman and tambourine as in his Insalata del Milord.) (T. Pitnatti. Pietro Longhi ... Longon 1969. fig. 91) See also Pignatti figs. 268 and 299d.
[Longhi Pa] _______. The Dancing Girl. private collection. There is also a woman with a tambourine. (T. Pignatti. Pietro Longhi ... London 1969. fig. 104) See also Pignatti fig. 106.
XV: Miscellaneous Figures
Angels: [Costantini Fr] Costantini, Ermenegildo (doc. 1764-1791) and Thaddäus Kunz (ca. 1731-1793). Angels. Rome, Santa Caterina da Siena. fresco. Numerous musical angels, including one playing a large tambourine. unimp. (Arte illustrata 3 [1970] March-May p. 105)
[Fontebasso Dr] Fontebasso, Francesco (1709-1769), attr. The Death of the Magdalene. Washington DC NGA. drawing. Angels play violin, recorder, shawm and tambourine. (Recent Acquisitions 1974. p. 205 [minuscule reproduction])
[Gd Tiepolo Pa] Tiepolo, Giandomenico (1727-1804). Design for a Ceiling. London art market. oil sketch. Many musical angels, including two with tambourines. (Burlington 123 [1981] March ad p. i)
Comedians: [Gd Tiepolo Dr] Tiepolo, Giandomenico (1727-1804). A Group of Puncinellos with Donkeys. Bloomington IN, University Art Museum. drawing. Some dance, accompanied by a woman playing a large tambourine. very unimp. (Arte veneta 33 [1979] 154)
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] _______. Punchinellos with Dancing Dogs. Cambridge MA, Fogg Art Museum. drawing. Men play bagpipe and tambourine, and a woman holds a tambourine. (exh Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1970: Tiepolo, A Bicentenary Exhitibion 1770-1970. no. 104; Connoisseur 135 [1955] 276 [fine reproduction]; Apollo 91 [1970] 479)
[Gd Tiepolo Pa] _______. Il cavadenti/The Dentist. Paris Louvre. Includes a dwarf playing a guitar and (elsewhere) a punchinello playing a tambourine. (C. Donzelli. I pittori veneti del settecento. Florence 1957. fig. 312; A. Mariuz. Giandomenico Tiepolo. Venice [197-] fig. 85; R. Pallucchini. La pittura veneziana del settecento. Venice 1960. fig. 683, 684 [fine detail])
[Gd Tiepolo Pa] _______. Pulcinello in Love (1797). Venice, Cà Rezzonico. Several figures dance, accompanied by a man playing a tambourine. (W. Photiades. Eighteenth Century Painting. New York 1964. pl. 121; T. Pignatti. Museo Correr. 1958. p. 132, as Pulcinella and Colombina; exh Venice, Palazzo Ducale, 1969: Dal Ricci al Tiepolo. I pittori di figura del settecento a Venezia. unnumbered pl. after p. LXXX [ok color reproduction], and p. 413; Bolletino dei Musei Civici Veneziani 1969/2, pp. 24-25 [before and after restoration])
[Zais Pa] Zais, Giuseppe (1709-1781). Landscape with Comedians. Venice, Accademia. Comedians play guitar and tambourine. (1970 catalog, vol. III, 17th-19th century. cat. no. 268)
Musicians (amateur and professional): [Monaldi Pa] Monaldi, Paolo (doc. 1753-1767). Itinerant Musicians. private collection. A man plays a colascione and a woman holds a tambourine. (A. Busiri Vici. Trittico paesistico romane del '700 ... Rome 1976. p. 274)
[Gd Tiepolo Dr] Tiepolo, Giandomenico (1727-1804), attr. Sheet of Studies, Incuding a Young Woman Playing a Tambourine. Bayonne, Musée Bonnat. drawing. It's a huge tambourine, partly visible. She sort of clutches it. (J. Bean. Les dessins italiens de la collection Bonnat. Paris 1960. no. 167)
[Carella Fr] Carella, Domenico (**). Itinerant Musicians (1776). Martina Franca (Taranto), Palazzo Ducale, room called "Arcadia". fresco. Men hold a colascione and play a recorder. A woman holds or plays a tambourine. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 101 [ok reproduction])
Putti: [G B Cignaroli Fr] Apollo and Pan (1739). Illasi, Villa Perez-Pompei. fresco. Apollo holds a lyre, Pan plays panpipes, and a putto holds a tambourine. (M. Precerutti Garberi. Affreschi settecenteschi delle ville Venete. Milan 1968. pl. XXXIX)