Female musicians

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

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1500-1550

Height:

53.2 cm  (20 15/16 in.)

Width:

37.5 cm  (14 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on panel

Place of creation:

Flanders

School:

Flemish

Additional titles

Description

Three female performers: a singer holding sheet music, a seated flautist, and a standing woman playing a lute.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093] (There is a flute case on the table.)
Lute [3394] (There is a lute case 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. 4. RILM 1984-07005.

RIdIM record id

4672