Status as of March 2001
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 the UHN Music Department for putting this index on their web page.
Muses: [Rowlandson Dr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). Apollo and the Muses. San Marino CA, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. drawing. One of the Muses plays a tambourine. (J. Hayes. Rowlandson, Watercolours and Drawings. London 1972. fig. 132)
Other: [Etty Pa] Etty, William (1787-1849). Nymph and Young Faun Dancing. London art market (1991). The nymph plays a tambourine and the faun plays cymbals. (Burlington 133 [1991] June ad p. xxix [ok reproduction])
Months/Zodiac: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Street Scenes.
See also French Portraits/Conversation Pieces.
[Baker Pa] Baker, Thomas (1769-1847). The Roberson Family (1817). London art market (1971). Includes a little unplayed tambourine (very half-heartedly depicted). (Arte illustrata IV, 43/44 [Sept.-Oct. 1971) 75)
[Hoppner Pa] Hoppner, John (1759-1810). The Tambourine Girl/Emily St Clare as a Bacchante. Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. A nice little girl with a large tambourine. (1949 catalog, p. 84; 1959 Handbook, p. 131; J. Wilson. "Hoppner's 'tambourine girl' identified." Burlington 130 [1988] 763-767, this reproduced p. 763. Identifies her as Emily St Clare.)
[Hoppner Pa] _______. Princess Amelia. private collection. She holds a very shallow drum, a sort of tambourine manqué. (O. Millar. The Later Georgian Pictures ... [Coll. H. M. the Queen]. London 1969. cat. no. 840, fig. 173)
[Raeburn Pa] Raeburn, Sir Henry (1756-1823). The Elphinstone Children. Cincinnati, Museum of Art. A little girl plays a tambourine. (Connoisseur 121 [1948] 45)
[Ross Pa] Mrs. Ross. Negro Tambourinist of the Coldstream Guards (ca. 1790). no location. (H. G. Farmer. Military Music. New York 1950. p. 36)
[Shoehling Pa] Shoehling, P. E. Portrait of Princess Augusta (1807). private collection. She holds music. Unplayed: a clarinet, a pair of cymbals, an enormous tambourine and a triangle. (O. Millar. The Later Georgian Pictures ... [Coll. H. M. the Queen]. London 1969. cat. no. 1095, fig. 238)
[Blake marquetry] Blake, G. H. Still life of Musical Instruments. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. marquetry on a piano by Erard (ca.1830). Many musical instruments, including a tambourine (J/B). (Early Music 12 [1984] 328 [ok reproduction])
Balls: [Cruikshank Pr] Cruikshank, George (1792-1878). "Making the Most of an Evening at Vauxhall." etching. The dancers are accompanied by a wind band in an elegant bandstand. The percussion section consists of two turbaned blacks playing jingling johnny (front and center) and tambourine, and two little white boys playing triangles. (H. and M. Evans. The man who drew the Drunkard's daughter. The life and art of George Cruikshank. London 1978. p. 45)
Concerts: [Rowlandson Pr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). Vauxhall Gardens, from Microcosm of London, vol. II, 1809. Includes an elaborate bandstand with a musical ensemble including two negro (?) tambourine players. (MgB IV/5, p. 105)
Fairs/Festivals: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Street Scenes.
[Rowlandson Dr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). Greenwich Fair with Richardson's Show. London, British Museum. drawing. Travelling players, with women playing a violin, a deep frame drum and a tambourine. (A. Bury. Thomas Rowlandson. Drawings. London 1949. no. 40 [too small for details])
Processions/Parades: [CI London ca.1790] Anon. Military Band at the Changing of the Guard, St James's Palace, ca.1790. engraving. Includes a black tambourine (B) player. (Early Music 9 [1981] 385 [small reproduction])
Street Scenes: [Cruikshank Pr] Cruikshank, George (1792-1878). "November -- St Celia's Day," from the Comic Almanack. etching. A musical orgy in a city street, including a wind band with turbaned black percussionists playing cymbals, jingling johnny (player not visible) and tambourine. There is also a group of street musicians (midgets) playing hurdy-gurdy, tambourine and triangle. (J. Buchanan-Brown. The Book Iilustrations of George Cruikshank. Newton Abbot 1980. fig. 98; Apollo 112 [1980] 266 [small reproduction])
[Dayes Pa] Dayes, Edward (1763-1804). Grosvenor Square. private collection. A group of street musicians with a male organ-grinder, women playing a hurdy-gurdy and a tambourine, +and a child playing a triangle. (J. Summerson. Architecture in Britain 1530-1830. London 1953. [The Pelican History of Art] pl. 136, 6/1977 pl. 319 [poor reproduction]) Engraved by Robert Pollard (ca.1755-1838) with aquatint by Robert Dodd. pub. Pollard 1789.
[Rowlandson Dr] _______. Matthew Bramble's Trip to Bath: Arrival at Bath. London art market (1967). drawing. He is serenaded by street musicians, including a woman playing a tambourine. (Lt. Cdr. B. Penrose sale, Christie's, 14.III.1967, lot 112 [ok reproduction])
[Wilkie Pa] Wilkie, Sir David (1785-1841). The Parish Beadle. London, Tate Gallery. Itinerant musicians play a hurdy-gurdy (woman) +and tambourine (man). (Vis. Coll. 377.W659.90[t]) Engraved by J. C. Armytage.
Circus: [CI London 1805] Anon., early 19th century. English Variety Act at Vauxhall Gardens, London, 1805, from Rees, Cyclopaedia. engraving. Each player has a different-sized set of panpipes around his neck +and a janissary percussion instrument. One has a tambourine. (MGG VI, col. 1707)
Operatic/Theatrical Scenes: [Rowlandson Pr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). In the Pantheon Theatre, London. Washington DC NGA. colored etching. There is an orchestra in the pit, two young dancers on stage, and a tambourine on the stage floor. (exh Washington DC, NGA, 1950: Rosenwald Collection, Recent Acquisitions. no. 97)
Other: [Burney Dr] Burney, Edward Francis (1760-1848). An Elegant Establishment for Young Ladies. London V & A. satirical water color. One of the young ladies practices a keyboard instrument. There is a dancing master with a kitten and a kit/pochette in his pocket. A turbaned Turk +shows a young lady how to pose elegantly with a tambourine. (R. Leppert. Music and Image ... Cambridge 1988. p. 54; exh London, RAA, 1934: British Art. Commemorative Catalog. Oxford 1935. no. 716, pl. CLX; Apollo 112 (1980) 262)
Costume/Character Series: [J G P Fischer Dr] Fischer, Johann Georg Paul (1786-1875). Negro Tambourinist of the Ist Foot Guards and Two Drummer Boys (1814). private collection. (A. E. H. Miller and N. P. Dawnay. Military Drawings and Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. London 1966-1970. cat. no. 1105, pl. 212)
[Rehberg-Piroli Pr] Thomas (Tommaso) Piroli (1752-1824) after Friedrich (Frederic) Rehberg (1758-1835). Lady Hamilton en danseuse, from Drawings, faithfully copied from nature, at Naples ... London, Fores, 1794. engraving. She holds aloft a large tambourine. One of the "Attitudes" of Lady Emma Hamilton (1763-1815). (G. Chazal. "Les 'Attitudes' de Lady Hamilton." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 94 [1979] 220-226. This reproduced p. 221)
[Navez Pa] Navez, François-Joseph (1787-1869). Allegorical Double Portrait? Brussels art market. The male figure has a laurel wreath and holds a woodwind instrument (?). The female figure has a floral crown and holds a partly visible lyre. There are an unplayed panpipes and a shallow frame drum (a sort of tambourine without its jingles). (Burlington 132 [1990] March ad p. xxii, as Anacreon and Orpheus)
Achilles: [Gauffier Pa] Gauffier, Louis (1762-1801). Achilles and the Daughters of Lycomedes/Achilles recognized by Ulysses. New York art market. The Daughters of Lycomedes play lyre and tambourine. (Burlington 131 [1989] Feb. ad p. xvi [small reproduction])
Seasons: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Landscapes.
[Corot Pa] Corot, Jean-Baptiste (1796-1875). La Zingara au tambour de basque. Paris Louvre. Genre portrait. She holds a tambourine. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 89 [March 1977] La Chronique des Arts 1298, p. 17)
[E L V Lebrun Pa] Lebrun, Elizabeth Louise Vigée (1755-1842). Portrait of Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante. Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery. She plays a tambourine. (1983 catalog: Catalogue of Foreign Paintings ...p. 188 [1928 catalog has the better reproduction]; 1928 catalog: 18th-20th Century Painting. pl. no. 101 [ok reproduction])
[Prud'hon Dr] Prud'hon, Pierre Paul (1758-1823). Design for a Concert Invitation. no location. drawing. Numerous unplayed instruments, including a tambourine. unimp. (A. P. de Mirimonde. L'iconographie musicale sous les rois Bourbons ... Paris 1975-77. vol. II, fig. 14)
Landscapes: [Boguet Pa] Boguet, Nicolas Didier (1755-1839). Spring, from a Four Seasons series. Palazzo Poggio Imperiale (near Florence). Four women dance, accompanied by a man playing a plucked stringed instrument (?). One of the dancers plays a tambourine. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts83 [1974] 331 [minusucle reproduction])
[Corot Pa] Corot, Jean-Baptiste (1796-1875). Pastorale, souvenir d'Italie. Glasgow, Art Gallery and Museum. Figures play cymbals (?) and tambourine. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 118 [December 1991] La Chronique des Arts 1475, p. 23, with reference to M. Clarke. Corot and the Art of Landscape. London 1991)
[Lesueur Pa] Lesueur, Pierre Etienne (fl. 1780-90). Italian Landscape with Itinerant Musicians. London art market (1953). Includes a man with a mandola/large mandolin and a woman with a tambourine. unimp. (Melchett sale, Sotheby's, 25.III.1953)
[A Robert] Robert, Aurèle (1794-1835). Capri (1830). Beauvais, Musée Départemental de l'Oise. A woman dances and another plays a tambourine. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 99 [March 1982] La Chronique des Arts 1358, p. 11 [small reproduction])
Street Scenes: [C F Muller Pa] Muller, Charles François (1789-1855). Terrasse au bord de la Seine. Geneva art market (1960). Street musicians play mandolin, flute and tambourine. (sale, N. Rauch, Geneva, 13/15.VI.1960)
Village/Rustic Scenes: [BI Paris 1823] Le Villain, François (doc.1819-22). Il Saltarello, from Antoine Thomas, Un an à Rome et dans ses environs. Paris 1823. pl. 56. etching. A young couple dances, accompanied by a man playing a tambourine (J, with two rows of jingles strung across the frame and the head decorated with painted flowers). There is also an unplayed mandolin. (MgB IV/5, p. 81 [ok reproducton])
[BI Paris 1823] _______. Le Retour des Vendanges. As above, pl. 59. A torchlight procession of peasants, including a dancing couple. The man plays a tambourine (two rows of jingles strung across the frame) and has a mandolin slung over his shoulder. (MgB IV/5, p. 49 [ok reprodction])
[Pau de Saint-Martin Pa] Pau de Saint-Martin (le Jeune), Pierre Alexandre (op. 1784-1834). Village Dance. Paris art market (1912). Musicians play violin, small double bass and tambourine. (sale, Drouot, Paris, 3.V.1912 [tiny reproduction])
Other: [Delacroix Pa] Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863). A Jewish Wedding in Morocco (1839). Paris Louvre. Musicians play rebec, lute and tambourine. (Vis. Coll. 375.D371.90[z])
[C Vernet Pa] Vernet, Carle (Antoine-Charles-Horace, dit) (1758-1836). Horse Race (1826). Avignon, Musée. Includes a woman dancing with a tambourine. (exh Paris, Grand Palais, 1974-75: de David à Delacroix ... cat. no. 185, fig. 190. Apparently inspired by the carnival at Rome, where he was in 1783.)
Inn Interiors: [Haudebourt-Lescot Pa] Haudebourt-Lescot, Hortense (1784-1845). The Serenade. Bern art market (1979). A couple on a loggia is serenaded by two young women playing mandolin and tambourine. (Die Weltkunst 49 [1979] 2396 [ok color reproduction])
Music Lessons: [M Gérard Pa] Gérard, Marguerite (1761-1837). La Réprimande. Paris art market (1908). A music lesson interrupted by a child who has just been scolded. The music master has his violin. There is an unplayed tambourine. (sale, Drouot, Paris, 23.III.1908 [ok reproduction])
Children: [Sc Düsseldorf KM] French (Lorraine?), last quarter, 18th century? A Little Girl Playing a tambourine. Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum. terra cotta figure. One of a pair with a dancing boy. (Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. Bildhefte Nr. 2. Bildwerke des Barock. Düsseldorf 1966. pl. 36)
Jephthah: [Schnorr von Carolsfeld Dr] Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Julius Veit Hans (1794-1872). The Return of Jephthah. London art market (1983). drawing. The daughter comes out of a door, beating a tambourine with a drumstick. (sale Christie's, London, 23.VI.1983; Die Weltkunst 53 [1983] 1678)
Nativity: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Musicians.
Bacchanals: [BI Berlin 1829] Anon.? Bacchanale, from Wilhelm Waiblinger. Taschenbuch aus Italien und Griechenland auf das Jahr 1829 [or 1630]. Berlin, G. Reiner, 1829; Berlin, G. Reiner, n.d. [1830]. engraving. A dancing woman plays a tambourine. (exh Nuremberg GNM 1991-92: Künstlerleben in Rom. p. 446)
[Strack Pa] Strack, Ludwig Philipp (1761-1836). A Sacrifice to Bacchus. London art market (1972). In the left foreground, bacchantes dance accompanied by players of woodwind, cymbals and tambourine. In the right background, bacchantes dance accompanied by players of woodwind and tambourine. There are also a woodwind and a tambourine on the ground in the foreground. unimp. (Apollo 96 [1972] Dec. ad. p. 106)
[J F A Tischbein Pa] Tischbein, Johann Friedrich August (1750-1812). A Bacchante. private collection. She dances to her tambourine (JJ/clusters of bells). The same woman with a tambourine appears in Jan Boeckhorst (1605-1668), The Five Foolish Virgins (Liechtenstein Coll.). (exh Darmstadt, 1914: Deutsches Barock und Rokoko. Ed. G. Biermann. vol. II, p. 486)
[Einsle Pa] Einsle, Joseph Bernhard (1774-1829). Self-Portrait with his Family (1822). Munich BNM. portrait miniature. Three children dance and a boy plays hurdy gurdy and girls play tambourine and triangle. (Die Weltkunst 54 [1984] p.2901 [ok color reproduction])
[L L Robert Pa] Robert, Léopold Louis (1794-1835). Peasant Woman from the Campagna of Rome. Paris Louvre. Genre portrait. She holds a tambourine. (1961 catalog: Peintre. École française XIXe siècle. pl. 648; Vis. Coll. 374.1.R542.90[a]))
[L L Robert Pa] _______. Portrait of a Young Woman of Sorrento (1824). Zürich, Gottfried-Keller-Stiftung (deposited in Neuchâtel MBA). Genre portrait. She holds a huge tambourine. (exh Bern 1942: 50 Jahre Gottfried-Keller-Stiftung. Abb. 40; exh Bern, 1965: Meisterwerke der Gottfried-Keller-Stiftung. p. 122)
[Stieler Pa] Stieler, Joseph Karl (1781-1858). The Princesses Sophie, Friederike and Maria Anna von Bayern. Regensburg, Fürstliche Thurn und Taxis Kunstsammlungen. Three little girls, one of whom dances to her tambourine. (R. Oldenbourg. Die Münchner Malerei im 19. Jahrhundert. I. Teil. Munich 1922, p. 89)
Carnival: [J A Krafft Pa] Krafft, Johann August (1798-1829). Carnival Revellers in a Roman Street (1828). Copenhagen, Thorvaldsen Museum. Revellers dance and play a bow and bladder drone. There is a child with a tambourine on a dancing punchinello's back. (L. Martius. Die schleswig-holsteinsche Malerei im 19. Jahrhundert. Neumünster 1956. [Studien zur schleswig-holsteinschen Kunstgeschichte, 6] p. 187; exh Nuremberg GNM 1991-92: Künstlerleben in Rom. p. 458 [ok reproduction])
Landscapes: [Catel Pa] Catel, Franz Ludwig (1778-1856). Dancers in Pezzuoli. Vienna art market (1978). Two dance, accompanied by players of a mandola and a tambourine. (Die Weltkunst 48 [1978] 1120 [reproduction useless for details])
[Klenze Pa] Klenze, Leo von (1784-1864). A View of Capri (1860). Munich, Stadtmuseum, Inv. II d/208. A couple dances with castanets, accompanied by a woman sitting on a wall, playing a tambourine. (MgB IV/5, p. 83)
[Koch Dr] Koch, Joseph Anton (1768-1839). Landscape with the Tiber near Rome. Basel Ksk. drawing. A young peasant couple dances accompanied by a man playing a large mandolin/mandola and a woman playing a tambourine. (Imago musicae 7 [1990] 165)
[Koch Pa] _______. Landscape with the Tiber near Rome. Basel, Kunstmuseum. A peasant couple dances accompanied by a man playing a large mandolin/mandola and a woman playing a tambourine. There is also a separate player of a large set of panpipes. Related to the drawing, above (which does not have the panpiper). (Imago musicae 7 [1990] 165)
[Koch Dr] _______. Landscape near Olevano. Basel Ksk. drawing. Includes a procession of peasants led by a dancing man playing a large mandolin/mandola and a dancing woman playing a tambourine. (Imago musicae 7 [1990] 164 [ok reproduction])
[Koch Pa] _______. Landscape near Olevano. Basel, Kunstmuseum. Includes a procession of peasants led by a dancing man playing a large mandolin/mandola and a dancing woman playing a tambourine. Related to the drawing above. (Imago musicae 7 [1990] 164)
[Koch Pr] _______. "Vigna del Belvedere d'Olevano." etching. There is a joyful procession led by a dancing couple and a woman playing a tambourine. Elsewhere, there is a man playing a mandolin. (Die Weltkunst 55 [1985] 2403 [not helpful for details])
Processions/Parades: [Dr private collection] German?, late 18th century. The Band of the Prussian Infantry Regiment "von Arnim," Berlin, Unter den Linden. private collection. drawing. The band has at least fifteen members, including two players of tambourines. (A. E. H. Miller and N. P. Dawnay. Military Drawings and Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. London 1966-70. cat. no. 354, pl. 162. The plate caption dates as ca. 1790, the text as ca. 1795.)
[Pa Bozen Museum] Anon., late 18th century. Reception of Empress Maria Luise in the Kapuzinergasse, Bozen/Bolzano 6.V.1790. Bozen/Bolzano (S. Tirol), Museum der Stadt. With a wind band of about thirteen musicians, including a player of a tambourine. (W. Salmen. ... Österreich. Innsbruck 1979. p. 11 [detail, still difficult to make out the details])
Street Scenes: [Lindau Pa] Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm (1799-1862). Johann Christoph Reinhart and Others Watching a Saltarello. ex Leipzig, Museum für bildenden Künste (destroyed). Includes a couple dancing accompanied by a man playing a mandolin (?) and a woman playing a tambourine. Another woman holds a tambourine. A youth in a group in a carriage holds a large tambourine. (H. Geller. Die Bildnisse der deutschen Künstler in Rom 1800-1830. Berlin 1952. Abb. 403; H. J. Niedhardt. Die Malerei der Romantik in Dresden. Leipzig 1976. no. 162, as Oktoberfest in einer Vigna bei Rom. 1832)
[Neustück Dr] Neustück, Maximilian (1756-1834). Nocturnal Serenade in a Town Street. Frankfurt am Main SKI. Itinerant musicians play hurdy-gurdy (Leierkasten?), hurdy-gurdy (singing?) and tambourine. (1973 catalog: Deutsche Zeichnungen. Alte Meister. fig. 1816)
[Ramberg Pr] Ramberg, Johann Heinrich (1763-1840). Italian Street Scene/"Leben in Rom" (1797). etching. Includes a man playing a mandolin and four women playing tambourines. (Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch 26 [1964] 205)
Village/Rustic Scenes: [Blechen Pa] Blechen, Karl (1798-1840). Tarantella. Munich, Treuhandverwaltung vom Kulturgut München (1957). Includes a youth playing a plucked stringed instrument and a female dancer with a tambourine. (exh Recklinghausen KH, 1957: Verkannte Kunst. no. 13)
[Catel Pa] Catel, Franz Ludwig (1778-1856). Tarantella beside the Bay of Bajae (Gulf of Naples). Munich, Neue Pinakothek, Inv. 3798. A couple dances with castanets, accompanied by men playing mandolin and tambourine. Two children also dance. (MgB IV/5, 83 [color reproduction])
[Hummel Pa] Hummel, Johann Erdmann (1769-1852). The Swing (1823). Kassel, Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Neue Galerie. Women play guitar and tambourine. (G. Böhmer. Die Welt des Biedermeier. Munich 1968. p. 68; Herzogliche Gemäldegalerie Kassel. 1969. pl. 103; MgB IV/3, p. 143; Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch 26 [1964] 203)
[Lindau Pa] Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm (1799-1862). Italian Village Street. Nuremberg GNM. A man riding a donkey plays a large mandolin. Two women dance beside him, one of them playing a tambourine. (Nuremberg GNM Anzeiger 1994, p. 168, as ca. 1826)
[Ramberg Pr] Ramberg, Johann Heinrich (1763-1840). Rustic Dance (1800). colored etching. Two young people dance (with castanets), accompanied by a man playing a violin and a negro boy playing a tambourine. (exh Naples 1957: Vedute napoletane della raccolta Lemmerman. no. 122, pl. XIII; Imago musicae 7 [1990] 173)
[Ramberg Dr] _______. A Young Neapolitan Couple Dancing a Tarantella. Düsseldorf art market (1966). drawing. The couple is accompanied by a woman playing a tambourine. (C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, cat. no. 44 [1966] no. 135, pl. 71)
[L L Robert Pa] Robert, Léopold Louis (1794-1835). Return from the Pilgrimage to the Madonna dell'Arco near Naples/Spring, from an uncompleted Four Seasons series (1827). Paris Louvre. Two dancing women play tambourines (JJ). A man riding on a cart plays a mandolin. A boy plays a tricca-ballacca. (1961 catalog: Pienture. École française XIXe siècle. IV, pl. 647; exh Paris, Grand Palais, 1974-75: de David à Delacroix ... cat. no. 160, fig. 198)
[J F A Tischbein Pa] Tischbein, Johann Friedrich August (1750-1812). Italian Peasants beside a Bay. Frankfurt am Main SKI. A couple dances and two women play large tambourines. (1973 catalog: Deutsche Zeichnungen. Alte Meister. no. 2059, p. 195; Imago musicae 7 [1990] 173)
Inn Interiors: [BI Berlin 1828] Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm (1799-1862), after. Artists watching a Saltarello, from Wilhelm Waiblinger. Taschenbuch aus Italien und Griechenland auf das Jahr 1828. Berlin, G. Reiner, 1828. engraving. A couple dances, accompanied by a man playing a mandola and a girl playing a tambourine (J/B). (exh Nuremberg GNM, 1991-92: Künstlerleben in Rom. p. 135) After the painting Thorvaldsen in a Roman Osteria watching a Saltarello (1827). See below.
[Lindau Dr] Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm (1799-1862). Artists watching a Saltarello. Dresden Ksk. drawing. German and Danish artists in an inn in Italy. Two men and a woman dance, one of the dancers playing a mandolin. A female child plays a tambourine. (H. Geller. Ernste Künstler, fröhliche Menschen ... Munich 1947. p. 139; H. Geller. Die Bildnisse der deutschen Künstler in Rom 1800-1830. 1952. Abb. 263)
[Lindau Pa] _______. Dance in an Osteria with a group of Danish Artists Looking On. private collection. A couple dances, accompanied by a man playing a mandolin and a girl playing a tambourine (J/B). (L. Bobé, ed. Rom og Danmark. Copenhagen 1937-38. vol. II, p. 225; exh Nuremberg GNM, 1991-92: Künstlerleben in Rom. p. 136 [ok reproduction], as Thorvaldsen in a Roman Osteria watching a Saltarello (1827) Cf. BI Berlin 1828, above.
Musicians (amateur and professional): [Greiner Sc] Greiner, Krippenschnitzer Family (op. ca. 1800). Miner Musicians from the Krippe from Rinn in Tirol (actually from Thaur bei Hall, Tirol). Vienna, Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde. carved wooden creche figures. They play double bass, Bergzither (looks like a small lute), flute and tambourine (with large bells, beaten with a beater). (L. Schmidt. "Die 'Bergmusik' der Rinner Krippe." Alte und moderne Kunst 18/71 [1963] 33-35)
[Lindner toy] Lindner, Johann Simon. Musical Toy Figures, a model-chart of the toy maker Johann Simon Lindner in Sonneberg. no location. Includes a woman playing a tambourine. (Die Weltkunst 58 [1988] 3762 [minuscule], after M. Bachmann. Das Sonneberger Spielzeugmusterbuch. Leipzig 1979)
Other: [L L Robert Pa] Robert, Léopold Louis (1794-1835). Two Neapolitan Girls (1833). Zürich, Gottfried-Keller-Stiftung (deposited in Neuchâel MBA). One leans on a tambourine. Sort of a costume study. (A. Bovy. La peinture suisse de 1000 à 1900. Basel 1948. [Art suisse, 4] p. 86; exh Bern, 1965: Meisterwerke der Gottfried-Keller-Stiftung. p. 122)
Bacchanals: [Carella Fr] Carella, Domenico,Antonio (1721-1813). Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. Martina Franca (Taranta), Palazzo Fighera. fresco. Satyrs play an irregularly curved horn and a shell-like horn. A dancing bacchante plays a tambourine, and there are a tambourine and masks hanging on a tree. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 94 [details], as late 18th century)
Other: [Ta Naples] Naples (Piero Duranti [1757-1786]), 1786. The Toilet of Psyche. Naples, Palazzo Reale. tapestry. Includes a group of women playing mandola, harp and tambourine. (exh Naples 1979-80: Civiltà del '700 a Napoli 1734-1799. vol. II, no. 337, p. 103 [small reproduction])
War and Peace: [Giani Fr] Giani, Felice (1758-1823). Trionfo della Pace. Rome, Palazzo di Spagna. fresco. Includes a rejoicing woman (? -- rather muscular) playing a tambourine (JJ). unimp. (exh Rome, CIC Pantheon, 1983: Bartolomeo Pinelli .... p. 187 [ok reproduction] [not exhibited])
Carnival: [Pinelli Dr] Pinelli, Bartolomeo (1781-1835). Carnival in Rome. Rome, National Museum of Rome. drawing? Includes a reveller playing a tambourine (row of pellet bells [?] strung across frame). (Journal des Arts [March 1961] 4)
Dances and Dancers: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Street Scenes; Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Village/Rustic Scenes; Miscellaneous Figures, Costume/Character Series.
Fairs/Festivals: [Gigante Pa] Gigante, Gaetano (doc. 1818-1822). The Festival of the Madonna dell'Arco. Naples, Certosa di S. Martino. One group of figures includes dancers, men playing a colascione and a tricca-ballacca, and a woman playing a tambourine. Another group includes a man playing a mandolin and a woman playing a tambourine. (G. Doria. Il Museo e la Certosa di S. Martino. Naples 1964. pl. 11)
[Gigante Pa] _______. Return from the Festival of the Madonna dell'Arco. Naples, Certosa di S. Martino. A little peasant procession, including a woman with a tambourine under her arm. (G. Doria. Il Museo e la Certosa di S. Martino. Naples 1964. pl. XVI [color])
Street Scenes: [Bison Pa] Bison, Giuseppe Bernardino (1762-1844). Sheet of Studies/Street Scene, from the album of Carlo d'Arco (III, 1). Mantua, Biblioteca Comunale. drawing. A woman dances with a huge tambourine, accompanied by a man with a mandola (?). unimp. (Arte lombarda 58/59 [1981] 80)
[Fioroni Pa] Fioroni, Luigi (1795-1864). Scene beside a Roman Inn (1830). Copenhagen, Thorvaldsens Museum. A man plays a chitarrone and a youth holds a tambourine. (F. Bull. Nordisk Kunstnerliv i Rom. Oslo 1960. p. 107; H. Olsen. Italian Paintings and Sculpture in Denmark. Copenhagen 1961. pl. CIXa; Rom og Danmark 2 [1935] 224)
[Pinelli Dr] Pinelli, Bartolomeo (1781-1835). Group of Dancers at the Carnival in Rome (1826). no location. drawing. Includes a comedian dancing to his mandola and a woman dancing to her tambourine. (exh Rome, CIC Pantheon, 1983: Bartolomeo Pinelli .... cat. no. 133, pp. 22 [fine color reproduction], 140 [smaller, b&w reproduction] [no location] Notes is related to an engraving of 1820.)
[Pinelli Pr] Pinelli, Bartolomeo (1781-1835). The Magic Lantern. etching? A beggar child plays a hurdy-gurdy and a beggar woman plays a tambourine. (O. Vergani. Il banditore. Milan 1955. fig. 29)
[Pinelli Dr] _______. Il ritorno delle mozzatore di notte. Rome, Museo di Roma. drawing. Four women and a man dance, two of the women with tambourines. (Storia della pittura italiana dell'ottocento, I. Milan 1975. fig. 92 after p. 80)
[Pinelli Pr] _______. Peasants in the Piazza Barberini, Rome (1821). etching. One of them gestures broadly and holds a large tambourine. (exh Nuremberg GNM, 1991-92: Künstlerleben in Rom. p. 224 [ok reproduction])
Village/Rustic Scenes: [Gatta Dr] Gatta, Xavier della (1777-1833?). Dancing Peasants (1826). Munich art market (1980). drawing. Two couples dance accompanied by players of a colascione (?) and a large tambourine. (Die Weltkunst 50 [1980] 1963)
[Pinelli Dr] Pinelli, Bartolomeo (1781-1835). Scene with Two Women dancing and a Woman Playing a Tambourine. no location. drawing. (exh Rome, CIC Pantheon, 1983: Bartolomeo Pinelli .... cat. no. 8, p. 74 [ok reproduction], as 1806-1809[?] [no location])
[Pinelli Pr] _______. The Carriage, frontispiece of Costumi di Roma. Rome 1831. etching. An open carriage filled with fashionably dressed young ladies -- one of whom plays a tambourine (with a row of pellet bells strung across the head) -- and drawn by two galloping horses, passes a group of admiring rustic youths. (exh Rome, CIC Pantheon, 1983: Bartolomeo Pinelli .... pp. 322 [ok reproduction], 244 [fine detail, with the tambourine] [not exhibited])
Costume/Character Series: [Pinelli Dr] Pinelli, Bartolomeo (1781-1835). Bacchanal in the Month of October in Rome, from Costumi di Roma. no location. drawing. A woman in a horse-drawn wagon plays a tambourine. (M. Monteverdi, ed. Storia della pittura italiana dell'ottocento, I. Milan 1975. fig. 97 after p. 80 [no location])
[Pinelli Pr] Pinelli, Bartolomeo (1781-1835). "Il ballo napoletano/detto la Tarentella," from Raccolta di 50 costumi il più interessanti della città terre e paese ... del Regno di Napoli. Rome, Lorenzo Lazzari, 1814. etching. Three figures. A peasant girl plays a tambourine as a youth and a young woman dance. (exh Rome, CIC Pantheon, 1983: Bartolomeo Pinelli ... p. 302 [not exhibited])
Putti: See also Allegory, Seasons.
[Bison Fr] Bison, Giuseppe Bernardino (1762-1844). Olympus. Breda di Piave, Villa Spineda. fresco. One of several musical putti plays a tambourine. very unimp.
(M. Precerutti Garberi. Affreschi settecenteschi delle Ville Venete. Milan 1968. fig. 137)
[Bison Dr] _______. Musical Putti. Cambridge MA, Fogg Art Museum. drawing. One of the putti plays a tambourine (clusters of bells). unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372d.B545.36[a])