Allégorie de la trêve de 1609 entre Albert, archiduc d'Autriche, gouverneur des Pays-Bas du Sud, et les Pays-Bas du Nord représentés par les princes d'Orange
Venne, Adriaen van de (1589-1662)
Additional titles
Allegory of the Truce of 1609 between Albert, Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Southern Netherlands, and the Northern Netherlands represented by the Princes of Orange, also known as The allegory of the Twelve Years Truce
- Musée du Louvre
[Museum inv. no.: 1924]
Item location
Description
Painted in a realistic manner reminiscent of Brueghel, this is an allegorical representation of the famous political event that marked the suspension of hostilities between the Spanish and the Dutch and the de facto recognition of the independence of the Northern Netherlands. Includes a group of multiple well-dressed instrumentalists providing music.Iconclass
45I5suspension of hostilities (truce)
43A411
festivities on events of national importance
Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)
Bass violin [3565] (or viola da gamba)Recorder [4039]
Lute [3394] (with lute case on the ground)
Spinet [2256]
Harp [3285]
Violin [3573]
Bandora [3319] (likely identification based on visible neck, tuning head and small portion of upper body)
Strohfiedel [4783] (appears to be an early hand-held xylophone on a rope, hanging from the players hand, with a beater in the other hand)
Kit [3571]
Racket [3807]
RIdIM images
detail of musicians
Image URLs
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Bibliographic references
Lallement, Nicole. "Inventaire des tableaux à sujets musicaux du musée du Louvre. V: Peintures hollandaise et flamandes des XVII et XVIII siècles.", Musique, images, instruments: Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale 6 (2004) 220, no. 40.Larousse de la musique, publié sous la direction de Norbert Dufourcq avec la collaboration de Félix Raugel [et] Armand Machabey (Paris: Larousse, 1957) vol. 1, opposite 192.