Taste, hearing, touch (detail)

Brueghel, Jan, the elder (1568-1625)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1620

Height:

176.0 cm  (69 5/16 in.)

Width:

264.0 cm  (103 15/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

School:

Flemish

Description

one female playing rebec; two children singing

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Viol [3597]
Harp [3285]
Flute [3955]
Lute [3394]
Violin [3573]
Harpsichord [2251]
Drum [2585]
Violoncello [3582]
Sackbut (trombone) [4364]
Shawm [4258]
Rebec [3202]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The Theme of Music in Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 2 (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) 25, #101.

Sopena, Federico and Antonio Gallego. La musica en el Museo del Prado (Madrid: Publicacion del Patronato Nacional de Museos, 1972) 151-152.

RIdIM record id

367