Research Home Tools Cutural Objects Names Authority | |||||
Cultural Objects Names Authority® Full Record Display | |||||
ID: 700001933 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001933 | Record Type: Movable Work |
Images: 1 | |
Orpheus en de dieren (easel painting (painting by form); Paulus Potter (Enkhuizen 1625 - Amsterdam 1654); 1650; Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands); SK-A-317; RM001.collect.5094) | |
Note: A young man is playing a lyre in a hilly landscape. His music is so sweet that wild animals have gathered round to listen: some walking, some crawling, some digging - like the mole, bottom right. Here Paulus Potter has depicted a scene from one of Ovid's tales of metamorphosis. The musician is Orpheus, who had the gift of enchanting wild animals with his music. The story gave Potter the opportunity to depict a wide variety of tame and untamed creatures. He painted around thirty species on this canvas, not counting the insects and birds. | |
Titles: |
Orpheus en de dieren (preferred,C,U,RP,Dutch-P,U,U) |
Orpheus charming the beasts (C,U,DE,English-P,U,U) |
Catalog Level: item |
easel painting (painting by form) [300177435] (preferred) |
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by form>) |
paintings (preferred) |
Creation Date: 1650 |
Paulus Potter (Enkhuizen 1625 - Amsterdam 1654) [preferred,VP] |
painter Potter, Paulus (Dutch painter, 1625-1654) [500012008] |
Locations: |
Current: Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands) [500246547] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body) |
Repository Numbers: SK-A-317; RM001.collect.5094 |
Display Materials: oil on canvas |
oil paint (paint) [300015050] | |
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>) |
canvas (textile material) [300014078] | |
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>) |
Dimensions: 67 x 89 cm |
religion and mythology (preferred) |
landscapes |
Orpheus [901000392] | |
.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON) |
elephant (animal) [300250160] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Proboscidea (order)) (AAT) |
horse (species) [300250148] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Perissodactyla (order), Equidae (family), Equus (genus)) (AAT) |
camel (mammal) [300250139] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Artiodactyla (order), Camelidae (family)) (AAT) |
deer (family) [300250308] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Artiodactyla (order)) (AAT) |
unicorn [300379595] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), legendary beings) (AAT) |
lizard (suborder) [300250295] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Reptilia (class), Squamata (order)) (AAT) |
monkey (animal) [300250028] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Primates (order)) (AAT) |
wolf [300250132] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Canidae (family), Canis (genus)) (AAT) |
wild boar (species) [300250112] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Artiodactyla (order), Suidae (family), Sus (genus)) (AAT) |
hare (Leporidae) [300250216] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Lagomorpha (order), Leporidae (family)) (AAT) |
goat (genus) [300250122] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Artiodactyla (order), Bovidae (family)) (AAT) |
cow (mammal) [300250120] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), <mammals by sex or age>) (AAT) |
lion (species) [300310388] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Felidae (family), Panthera (genus)) (AAT) |
bear [300266516] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order)) (AAT) |
elk (species, moose, Alces alces) [300250310] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Artiodactyla (order), Cervidae (family), Capreolinae (subfamily), Alces (genus)) (AAT) |
mule (mammal) [300250277] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Perissodactyla (order), Equidae (family), Equus (genus)) (AAT) |
dog (species) [300250130] | |
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Canidae (family), Canis (genus)) (AAT) |
Copyright: Public Domain |
Provenance: aankoop 1809 |
Inscriptions: signatuur en datum Paulus Potter f 1650 |
List/Hierarchical Position: |
..... Movable Works |
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media |
Additional Notes: |
Dutch ..... Orpheus en de dieren. In een landschap aan de rand van een bos speelt Orpheus op zijn harp. Om hem heen tal van dieren: olifant, paard, kameel, hert, eenhoorn, hagedis, aap, wolf, everzwijn, haas, geit, koe, leeuw, beer, eland, ezel en hond. |
Sources and Contributors: | |
Orpheus en de dieren | ........ [VP,Rijksmuseum] |
........ Rijksmuseum XML files (2012) | |
Orpheus charming the beasts | ........ [VP] |
........ Rijksmuseum XML files (2012) | |
Subject: ....... [VP,Rijksmuseum] |
....................... Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-) http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-A-317?lang=en; accessed 13 September 2012 |
....................... Rijksmuseum XML files (2012) |
Note: | |
English | ..... [VP] |
..... Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-) http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-A-317?lang=en; accessed 13 September 2012 | |
Dutch | ..... [VP] |
..... Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-) http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/SK-A-317; accessed 6 September 2012 | |
|
||||||||
|