Plundering of a village

Savery, Roelandt (1576-1639)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1604
Height:
48.0 cm  (18 7/8 in.)
Width:
69.0 cm  (27 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood

    Item location

  • Broelmuseum
    [Museum inv. no.: 1912 Cat.51]

Description

A group of approximately 30 soldiers are plundering a village while two soldiers are playing trumpets and one soldier is playing snare drum.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446] (folded)
Trumpet [4446] (folded)
Cylindrical drum [2532] (Two (2) drum sticks)

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) vol. 2, 130, cat. 581, pl. XCVI. ISBN 3873973502. RILM 1977-2183.

RIdIM record id

1446