De Braspenningmaaltijd

Anthonisz, Cornelis (ca. 1505-after 1553)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1533

Height:

130.0 cm  (51 3/16 in.)

Width:

206.5 cm  (81 5/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on panel

Additional titles

Description

The panel depicts 17 men, members of the Amsterdam Crossbow guild, gathered around a table. They are gathered for eating a meal. There is bread and a plate with poultry and herring on the table. A man, seated at the table, holds a sheet of music in his hands, showing the music and the lyrics of the song: "In miijne sinn heb ik vercooren een meysken" (In my heart I have chosen a girl). The song is part of the gathering. To the right of the man holding music, a man pulls a recorder from a group of multiple recorders. Banquets were the most important yearly event of guards, including drinking, eating and singing. It is assumed that the painter included himself into the painting (above left, below his signature). Two of the men are holding crossbows, symbol of the Crossbow guild.

Iconclass

48C755
vocal music, singing
48C74
notation of music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Recorder [4039] (Held by the man to the right of the man holding the sheet of music. He selects one recorder from a case containing several recorders.)

Musical works

In myne zynnlegible music notationText identified as "In mijnen sijn heb ick vercoren een meijsken," and "the melody in the painting is quite clearly the familiar one associated with this text in the works of Busnois, Isaac, Agricola, Finck, Greiter, and others" (Picker, p. 134).

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Fischer, Pieter. Music in Paintings of the Low Countries in the 16th and 17th Centuries; Sonorum Speculum 50|51 (Amsterdam: Donemus, 1972) 50. RILM 1977-2179.

Kistemaker, Renée. "Between local pride and national ambition: The 'Amsterdam Museum' of the Royal Dutch Antiquarian Society and the new Rijksmuseum", Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 3/2 (Summer 2011) DOI 10:5092/jhna.2011.3.2.4 Fig. 15.

Picker, Martin. "Newly Discovered Sources for 'In Minen Sin'", Journal of the American Musicological Society 17/2 (Summer 1964) 133-143.

Armstrong, Christine Megan. The moralizing prints of Cornelis Anthonisz (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990).

Rosenberg, Jakob et al. Dutch art and architecture, 1600-1800. (Harmondsworth, Middx.: Penguin, 1966).

Middelkoop, Norbert, and Tom van der Molen. Amsterdam's Glory: The Old Masters of City of Amsterdam (Bussum: Thoth Publishers, 2009) 24.

RIdIM record id

216