The dilettanti

Troost, Cornelis (1696-1750)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1736
Height:
68.0 cm  (26 3/4 in.)
Width:
58.0 cm  (22 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood

Additional titles

Portrait of Jeronimus Tonneman and his son Jeronimus

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Ireland
    [Museum inv. no.: NGI.497]

Description

From the NGI website: "Jeronimus Tonneman was an important patron of the artist and is portrayed here as a man of culture. He is accompanied by his son, who plays the flute."

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flute [3955] (single key, four piece construction; with silver mountings and a slim, elegant profile)

Image URLs

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Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie record and image
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Bibliographic references

Boydell, Barra. Music and paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin: The National Gallery of Ireland, 1985) 33. ISBN 0903162229. RILM 1985-00222.

RIdIM record id

2579