A musical company
Ochtervelt, Jacob (1634-1682)
- Cleveland Museum of Art
[Museum inv. no.: 1991.23]
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Description
In a domestic interior, a man plays a small recorder (right hand on top) and a woman plays a violin. Neither uses written music. A second man in the foreground at left leans over to listen to the pair. The recorder player, dressed in a breastplate like a soldier's, has an instrument that seems too small in comparison to the violin to be a soprano in c. It is probably a sixth flute in d. If so, he plays a g-sharp in the second octave. The woman holds the violin along her forearm, cradling it in her elbow, and holds the bow with her thumb on the hair, very possibly playing g-sharp on the top string. She looks at the recorder player out of the corner of her eye while he stares into space and the other man looks back at her. A third man listens from the background and a couple converses in the background at right.Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)
Recorder [4039]Violin [3573]
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