Bassoon
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Maple, brass
- Dimensions
- L. 51 in. (129.4 cm)
- Origin
- French
- Department
- Musical Instruments
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1999
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Music Both · 99%
The museum identifies the work as a bassoon, and the image clearly shows a disassembled wind instrument with elongated wooden sections, keys, brass fittings, and a curved crook.
Visual Qualities
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Highly Detailed Visual · 88%
Numerous keys, rods, joints, fittings, and separate components are clearly visible within the open case.
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Linear Forms Visual · 87%
The composition is dominated by repeated elongated cylindrical sections, rods, keys, and the pronounced curve of the crook.
Time Periods
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18th Century Art Metadata · 94%
The museum dates the bassoon to 1790–1800, placing it primarily in the late eighteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 96%
The catalog lists the place of origin as French and identifies the maker as French, working in Paris.
Materials
Antiquities, Artifacts, and Religious Objects
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Musical Instrument Both · 99%
The catalog classifies the object as a bassoon and double-reed aerophone; the image shows the characteristic separated wooden sections, metal crook, keys, and related components of a wind instrument.
Source & rights
Dominique Antony Porthaux. Bassoon. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.