Wedding music

Pourbus, Frans, the elder (1545-1581)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1571
Height:
157.0 cm  (61 13/16 in.)
Width:
215.0 cm  (84 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil

Additional titles

La famille Hoefnagel

    Item location

  • Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
    [Museum inv. no.: 4435]

Description

Two men are playing lutes and one woman is playing virginal while a couple dances before group of 15 guests, including one child.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Virginal [2257]
Lute [3394]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Haacke, Walter. Am Klavier: Werke europäischer Maler aus sechs Jahrhunderten (Konigsten im Taunus: Hans Koster, 1968) 24. RILM 1972-2871.

RIdIM record id

1306