The music lesson

Borch, Gerard ter, the younger (1617-1681)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1670
Height:
63.6 cm  (25 1/16 in.)
Width:
50.4 cm  (19 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1891.1]

Description

A woman playing a small theorbo, with a book of music lying open on a stand resting on a table. Also lying on the table is a bass viol with its bow. A music master, holding a bow in this hand, directs his student.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Theorbo [3473]
Viola da gamba [3604]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 5 (81pa76). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

2010