Cleveland Museum of Art
Two Beggars Fighting
Jacques BellangeLinkedCulture matchlcp-96003fcfb305
- Date
- 1610–20
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- France, 17th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136325
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Since antiquity, music was considered to inspire two different effects: it could elevate the soul to spiritual thoughts, or arouse passions both violent and sensual. In this genre scene, two transients engage in an epic struggle. The hurdy-gurdy, slung across the body of one of the vagabonds, was considered a "base" instrument whose melodies heated the senses without uplifiting the spirit. In his Syntagma Musicum of 1618, the musical theorist Michael Praetorius dubbed the hurdy-gurdy a "fiddle for peasants and loose women."
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- Credit line
- Fortieth Anniversary Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of William Mathewson Milliken
- Provenance
- ?-1990: (R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Santa Barbara, CA) | March 16, 1990: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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