Three musicians

Master of the Female Half-Lengths (active 1st half of 16th century)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1530
Height:
53.0 cm  (20 7/8 in.)
Width:
37.9 cm  (14 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel
Place of creation:
Flanders
School:
Flemish

Additional titles

Three lady musicians

Description

Three female performers: a singer holding sheet music, a seated flautist, and a standing woman playing a lute. A lute hangs on the back wall.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093] (There is a flute case on the table.)
Lute [3394] (Two lutes depicted (one being played and one hanging on the wall))

Musical works

Sermisy, Claudin de -- Jouissance vous donneraylegible music notationRISM link 1

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Slim, H. Colin. "Paintings of lady concerts and the transmission of Jouissance vous donneray", Imago musicae 1 (1984) 51-73, fig. 3. RILM 1984-7005.

Thomas, Nancy and Constantina Oldknow, eds. By judgment of the eye: The Varya and Hans Cohn Collection. Los Angeles: Hans Cohn, 1991.

RIdIM record id

4670