Musical Instruments in Western European Art An Iconographical Guide The Tambourine -- 17th Century Status of July 2004 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. I am quit capable of looking at page 257 and writing down 277, and I seem to have difficulty telling right from left. Sorry. 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 Isabel Gray and the UHN Music Department for putting this index on their web page. ** [GB] BRITISH ARTISTS -- 17th CENTURY VI: Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures [Barlow Dr] Barlow, Francis (1626?-1704). Aesop welcomed on his return to Samos, from Aesop's Fables. London BM. drawing. A triumphal welcome with musicians playing six fanciful brass instruments and a tambourine. (1960 catalog of British Drawings, vol. I, pl. 57) [NL] DUTCH ARTISTS -- 17th CENTURY I: Old Testament Triumph of David: [Steen Pa] Steen, Jan (1626-1679). Triumph of David (1671). Copenhagen SMK. One of the male figures plays a tambourine. (exh Washington DC, NGA, 1996: Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller. p. 79 [not exh]; Vis. Coll. 374.St.3.12D) Other: [Mehus Pa] Mehus, Livio (1630-1691). The Fall of Manna. private collection. Includes an infant holding a tambourine. (exh Detroit, 1974: The Twilight of the Medici ... cat. no. 165, p. 281) [Steen Pa] Steen, Jan (1626-1679). The Adoration of the Golden Calf. Raleigh NC, NCMA. One of the musical figures is a black woman (?) with a tambourine. (M. Westermann. The Amusements of Jan Steen ... Zwolle 1997. p. 289, as ca.1673-76; Vis. Coll. 374.St3.11G) II: New Testament Cana, Wedding at: [Steen Pa] Steen, Jan (1626-1679). The Wedding at Cana (1676). Pasadena, Norton Simon Foundation. With several musicians, including a man playing a tambourine. (Haak. p. 430; exh Washington DC, NGA, 1996: Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller. p. 239 [not exh]; Sedelmeyer sale, 1907, IIe Vente, no. 176) V: Mythology Bacchanals: See also Portraits and Conversation Pieces. [Couwenbergh Pa] Couwenbergh, Christian van (1604-1667). Bacchanal (1626). private collection. Includes a bacchante playing a tambourine. unimp. (Haak. p. 326) [Couwenbergh Pa] _______. Sine Baccho et Caerere friget Venus. Monaco art market (1986). Includes a bacchante playing a tambourine. (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 1220) [Couwenbergh Pa] _______. Bacchus and Ceres (1626). location unknown. Includes, in the background, a bacchante dancing and playing a tambourine. (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 1218 [poor reproduction]) [Hoet Pa] Hoet, Gerard (1648-1733). Sacrificial Feast Among Antique Ruins. Munich art market. A male figure plays a shawm and female figures play lyre and tambourine. unimp. The figures are more seventeenth century than mythological. (Bernt II, pl. 530 [poor reproduction]) [Lairesse Dr] Lairesse, Gerard de (1641-1711). Bacchanal. Darmstadt HLM. drawing. Figures play wind instruments and tambourine. (Kettering Dutch Arcadia. fig. 185, as "Procession with Silvio carrying the Head of the Erimanthian Boar (?)"; Vis. Coll. 374d.L145.90[b]) [Lairesse Pa] _______. Bacchanal. Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. A male figure plays a double woodwind and a woman plays a tambourine (JJ). (Bernt II, pl. 656). Muses: See also Still Life. [Bisschop Pr] Bisschop, Jan de (called Episcopius) (1646-1686). Four Muses. etching. They play lira da braccio, lute, double woodwind (pausing) and tambourine (held). They are based on four of the Muses of an engraving by Hendrik Hondius (1573-1648) after Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566). The lira and double woodwind players are close copies, the lute player is totally botched, and the tambourine player is based on Zuccaro's flute player. (Musica calendar 1987: 26 July-8 August [fine reproduction]) VI: Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures See also Mythology, Bacchanals. [de Bray Pa] de Bray, Jan (ca. 1627-1697), attr. The First Meeting of Theagenes and Chariclea (from Heliodoris' Aethiopica). Glasgow, University, Department of Fine Arts (Smillie Coll.). Includes a child with a tambourine. (1963 catalog of the Smillie Collection, cat. no. 2, pl. 3) Also attr. Johan Horions (b.1638, doc. to 1664). (Oud- Holland 82 [1967] 142. Notes that Theagenes and Chariclea is the sub-title of Ethiopiques, a 10-volume Greek novel by Heliodore d'Emèse (Larousse), 3d century a. D.) [Horions Pa] Horions, Johan (doc.1655-1664). The First Meeting of Theagenes and Chariclea. Utrecht CM. Two figures share the playing of a tambourine. One holds, one beats, arms together in the pose of a single player! VII: Allegory Other: [Hooghe Pr] Hooghe, Romeyn de (1645/46-1708). Reception of His Majesty William of England at Westminster Bridge, from Govert Bidloo, Kmost van zyne majestiet Willem III Konig van Groot Britanje. The Hague 1691. etching. Includes a temporary festival arch with Belonna flanked by female figures representing "Patriotic Duty" and "Hapiness." "Hapiness" plays a tambourine. (C. S. Ackley. Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt. (C. S. Ackley. Printmaking in the age of Rembrandt. [exh Boston, St. Louis, 1980-81] Boston 1981. cat. no. 209, p. 298) X: Portraits and Conversation Pieces [Eeckhout Pa] Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den (1621-1674). Portrait of a Family in Pastoral Dress (166[7?]). Budapest SM. A female child plays a small tambourine. (Kettering Dutch Arcadia. fig. 86) [Eeckhout Pa] _______. Children in Antique Costume with a Goat Cart (1662). private collection. Includes a child playing a tambourine. (K. J. Müllenmeister. Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts. II. Bremen 1978. no. 137) [Eeckhout Dr] _______. Children in a Bacchanalian Precession (1662). private collection. drawing. Includes a child with a tambourine. (Connoisseur 143 [1959] April ad p. lxv) [W Honthorst Pa] Honthorst, William (sic) van (1604-1666). Conversation Piece. Cologne art market (1923). Includes a man with a lute and a child with a tambourine. (sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 8.V.23 [poor reproduction]) [Portengen Pa] Portengen, Lumen (doc.1637-m.1649). A Woman Playing a Tambourine. Vienna art market (1967). (JJ/BB) One of a pair, with A Man Playing a Bagpipe. unimp. (Nicolson Caravaggism pll. 1359 [bagpipe], 1360 [tambourine]. Notes sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 1967.) XI: Still Life [Everdingen Pa] Everdingen, Caesar Boëtius van (ca.1617-1678). Four Muses. The Hague, Huis ten Bosch, Oranjezaal. A sort of musical still life in the foreground, including a tambourine. unimp. (Haak. p. 258, as ca. 1650) XII: Decorative Elements [Lairesse Pa] Lairesse, Gerard de (1641-1711). Musical trophies on the shutters of the small organ (1685). Amsterdam, Westerkerk. One has a tambourine, another, a jingle ring. (exh The Hague, 1994: Music & Painting in the Golden Age ... p. 96 [poor reproduction, not exhibited]) XIII: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor Fairs/Festivals: [Steen Pa] Steen, Jan (1626-1679). Wedding Celebration beside a Castle. New York art market. Numerous musicians, including a woman playing a tambourine. Italianate setting. (exh Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, London, n.d.: Old Master Paintings. no. 222, unnumbered p. [ok reproduction]) Landscapes: [Lisse Pa] Lisse, Dirk van der (m.1668). Landscape with Shepherds (1635). Berlin, Gemäldegalerie der Staatliche Museen. Rustics play bagpipe (male) and tambourine (female). (Kettering Dutch Arcadia. fig. 159 [small reproduction]; Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 30 [1967] 171 [minuscule reproduction]) Pastorales: See also Portraits and Conversation Pieces. [Backer Pa] Backer, Jacob (1608-1651). Musical Pastorale. The Hague, Dienst Verspriede Rijkscollecties. Women play sing and play recorder and hold a tambourine (JJ/BB?). There is also an unplayed curved horn. (Kettering Dutch Arcadia, fig. 130) [Berchem Pa] Berchem, Nicolaes (1620-1683). A Dance in the Open. St. Petersburg, Hermitage. Figures play flute and tambourine (dancing). (Vis. Coll. 374.B45.90[g]) Street Scenes: [Wijck Pa] Wijck, Thomas (ca.1616-1677). Roman Street Scene. Philadelphia, Museum of Art, The John G. Johnson Collection. Peasant women play guitar and tambourine (?). (G. Briganti et al. The Bamboccianti ... Rome 1983. p. 230 [ok reproduction]) Village/Rustic Scenes: [Lingelbach Pa] Lingelbach, Johannes (1622-1674). Village Scene Outside an Inn. Nottingham Castle Museum. Includes a woman in a cart playing a tambourine. Italian setting. (exh Philadelphia, 1984: Masters of Seventeenth- Century Dutch Genre Painting, cat. no. 63, pl. 45 [color reproduction], as from the early 1650s, painted after his return to the Netherlands; exh Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, 1961: Dutch Painting of the Seventeenth-Century. cat. no. not recorded, pl. 18) XIV: Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor Other: [Steen Pa] Steen, Jan (1626-1679). Wedding Party. Rotterdam art market (1988). Several musicians in a gallery, including a woman playing a tambourine. (Die Weltkunst 58 [1988] 2763 [ok color reproduction]) XV: Miscellaneous Figures Children: See also Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures; Portraits and Conversation Pieces. Musicians (amateur and professional): [Holsteyn Dr] Holsteyn, Cornelis (1618- 1658). Design drawing for a trompe l'oeil gallery, Honselaersdijk Palace. Amsterdam RPK. drawing. Many musical figures, including a woman playing a tambourine. There is also an unplayed tambourine.