Poetry

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Monnaie de Paris (workshop / studio)
,
Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon (medalists)

Date

ca. 1900 - 1909

Period

20th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
This plaque depicts a woman making music with a lyre on her lap. The reverse shows a bucolic landscape with a shepherd and sheep. Vernon exhibited this piece at the Salon de la Medaille during the 1910 World's Fair in Brussels.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Monnaie de Paris , Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon
Types plaques (flat objects) AAT, kunstplaquette
Category medals
Material bronze
Dimensions 63 x 46.9 mm
Object number 1909-FF-1
Description
Subject figures (representations)
Tags female sex; woman Iconclass, lyre, cithara, psaltery Iconclass, herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. Iconclass, 'litterae', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ literature; 'Lettere' (Ripa) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1909-FF-1
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7667/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:1909-FF-1
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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