Antique Flutes in Art Photos

Flutes are some of the world's oldest instruments, here surveyed as portrayed in art or as the actual antique instruments

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Earthenware flutes from Mexico through to Peru by several cultures at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA.So-called Hansel fountain cast brass figure of flute player in Medieval doublet & pointed shoes from Nuremberg at Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Nuremberg, Germany.Hindu deity Krishna paying flute sculpture from Tamil Nadu, India at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA.Singing boy with flute portrait by Frans Hals at Berlin Gemaldegalerie. Berlin, Germany.
Earthenware flutes (ocarinas) (500-1600) from Mexico through to Peru by several cultures at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA.So-called Hansel fountain cast brass figure of flute player in Medieval doublet & pointed shoes (c1380) from Nuremberg at Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Nuremberg, Germany.Hindu deity Krishna paying flute sculpture (1400-1500) from Tamil Nadu, India at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA.Singing boy with flute portrait (1623-5) by Frans Hals at Berlin Gemaldegalerie. Berlin, Germany.
Peasant Interior with an Old Flute Player painting by Louis Le Nain at Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth, TX.Young Man with a Flute painting by George Romney at Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas, TX.The Flute painting by Francis William Edmonds at Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Fort Worth, TX.Porcelain Art Nouveau vase showing woman playing flute over swan & lilacs by Willets Manufacturing Co., Trenton, NJ at Lightner Museum. St Augustine, FL.
Peasant Interior with an Old Flute Player painting (c1642) by Louis (or Antoine?) Le Nain at Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth, TX.Young Man with a Flute painting (late 1760s) by George Romney at Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas, TX.The Flute painting (before 1859) by Francis William Edmonds at Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Fort Worth, TX.Porcelain Art Nouveau vase showing woman playing flute over swan & lilacs (1878-1909) by Willets Manufacturing Co., Trenton, NJ at Lightner Museum. St Augustine, FL.
Ornament for sacred flute from Sepik River of New Guinea at de Young Museum. San Francisco, CA.Wall tiles depicting a faun playing his flute taken from former café in Luxembourg & made by Villeroy & Boch at National Museum of History & Art. Luxembourg, Luxembourg.Ceiling painting of myth of Argus Panoptes guarding heifer-nymph Io & being lured to sleep by Hermes playing flute at Fembohaus City Museum. Nuremberg, Germany.Soldier, flute player & woman on Holyrood Palace fountain. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Ornament for sacred flute (19th-20thC) from Sepik River of New Guinea at de Young Museum. San Francisco, CA.Wall tiles depicting a faun playing his flute (c1910) taken from former café in Luxembourg & made by Villeroy & Boch at National Museum of History & Art. Luxembourg, Luxembourg.Ceiling painting of myth of Argus Panoptes guarding heifer-nymph Io & being lured to sleep by Hermes playing flute at Fembohaus City Museum. Nuremberg, Germany.Soldier, flute player & woman on Holyrood Palace fountain. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Flute & sculpture atop piano in south parlor of Aspet at Saint-Gaudens NHS. Cornish, NH.German zither & pioneer flute at Institute of Texan Cultures. San Antonio, TX.Mechanism of pendulum clock with playing flute & chimes at Arts et Metiers Museum. Paris, France.
Flute & sculpture atop piano in south parlor of Aspet at Saint-Gaudens NHS. Cornish, NH.German zither & pioneer flute at Institute of Texan Cultures. San Antonio, TX.Mechanism of pendulum clock with playing flute & chimes (1790) at Arts et Metiers Museum. Paris, France.
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