Dansende boeren voor een Boheemse herberg

Savery, Roelandt (1576-1639)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1610
Height:
47.0 cm  (18 1/2 in.)
Width:
61.0 cm  (24 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood

Additional titles

Peasants dancing before a Bohemian inn
Kermis

    Item location

  • Mauritshuis
    [Museum inv. no.: 1129]

Description

Group of three men and three women dancing, two men playing bagpipes, and a group of approximately 30 people, including men, women, and children.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746] (one chanter, one drone, both with fingerholes and u-shaped tubes with flared bells)
Bagpipe [3746] (one chanter, one drone, both with fingerholes and u-shaped tubes with flared bells)

Image URLs

image link 1
Mauritshuis image and description
image link 2
Mauritshuis enlarged image

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) vol. 2, 129, cat. 576, pl. LV. ISBN 3873973502. RILM 1977-2183.

RIdIM record id

1435