The family concert

Steen, Jan (1626-1679)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1666

Height:

86.6 cm  (34 1/8 in.)

Width:

101.0 cm  (39 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Haarlem

Description

A family is making music around a table in a rich interior. From the left a man is playing a lute, a woman is singing from the book she is holding in her hands, and a young man is playing a recorder. In the foreground a boy is pretending to play a cello using a pipe as bow. Three other personnages are chatting behind the musicians while a servant is looking at the scene from the right.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Recorder [4039]
Violoncello [3582]
Violin [3573]
Cornett [3868]
Organ [2266]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Maxon, J., The Art Institute of Chicago, Thames & Hudson, London (1970), p. 286

RIdIM record id

2011