Georges de la Tour, French
Triangle Player Waiting For His Solo, 1623
Oil on canvas
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1024 (5/23/14)
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here, here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more).
/// Audebert was told by a soothsayer
his job ought to be triangle player.
So he took up percussion
when a grievous concussion
made him too frightened to disobey her.
/// A mysterious blow to the head
rendered Audebert just about dead.
He gave up the bassoon,
(and a multi-note tune)
to clang metal on metal instead.
/// ‘Neath the bandage he wears as a hat
we can see that his forehead is flat
at an odd sloping angle.
Lesson learned— never tangle
with a soothsayer wielding a bat.
/// Still, the damage she did to his brain
doesn’t help to describe or explain
the odd way that he’s dressed:
Two dark “slots” down his chest?
I have looked for an answer in vain.
// Bell-like chimes can be pleasant to hear,
and yet Audebert’s quaking with fear.
The one note he can play
heard at home is OK,
but to tinkle in public? Oh, dear!
/// Though with triangles he’s a beginner,
he eats well to avoid growing thinner.
Call him music obsessed,
call him brain-damaged pest,
but do not call him late to his dinner!
In response to the suggestion that the triangle player looks like
Harry Potter‘s Professor Snape:
/// Playing triangle made Snape feel silly,
but he’s pledged to perform willy-nilly.
He had been there before
and it left him heart-sore.
A triangle with him, James and Lily.