The village orchestra

Pater, Jean-Baptiste (1695-1736)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1713-1736
Height:
74.5 cm  (29 5/16 in.)
Width:
59.7 cm  (23 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Frick Collection
    Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House. Duveen. Frick, 1918.[Museum inv. no.: 1918.1.93]

Description

In front of a thatched house a group of three roughly-garbed musicians (a man and two boys) play for a dancing couple of higher social station. A young women companion of theirs looks on. The adult musician plays a hurdy-gurdy; the two children, seated, play an oboe and a violin.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Hurdy-gurdy [3305] (adult man standing)
Oboe [4232] (boy seated facing out)
Violin [3573] (the boy is hidden from view but there is a violin bow resting on the barrel suggesting he might not be playing)

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Bibliographic references

Paintings in The Frick Collection: French, Italian and Spanish (New York: The Frick Collection, 1968) vol. 2.

RIdIM record id

1645