A musical party

Honthorst, Gerrit van (1592-1656)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1616-1618
Height:
131.5 cm  (51 3/4 in.)
Width:
182.0 cm  (71 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Ireland
    [Museum inv. no.: NGI.4693]

Description

A woman and a man are singing, looking at a music book, accompanied by a man playing a lute. A guitar is on the table in the foreground.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Guitar [3237] (vaulted back)

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Hofstötter, Bernhard. “Gerrit van Honthorst’s guitar: Tracing the features of an instrument reappearing in the works of the Utrecht Caravaggist”, Early music 50/3 (August 2022) 315–37. RILM 2022-23355.

RIdIM record id

1800