De koppelaarster

Baburen, Dirck van (ca. 1595-1624)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1622
Height:
107.0 cm  (42 1/8 in.)
Width:
101.0 cm  (39 3/4 in.)
Signed and dated: lower left, on base of lute: TBaburen f 16 [...] (T anb B joined)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Utrecht

Additional titles

The procuress

    Item location

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    [Museum inv. no.: 50.2421]

Description

The procuress (the old woman on the right) is asking for the payment to the young woman on the left, playing a lute and singing with the man behind her.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]

Image URLs

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RKD record
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Museum record

Bibliographic references

Montias, John Michael. Vermeer and his milieu: A web of social history (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991) 146. ISBN: 0691040516.

Slatkes, Leonard J. Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595-1624): A Dutch painter in Utrecht and Rome (Utrecht: Haentjens Dekker & Gumbert, 1965) 116, cat. A12, plate 17.

Gowing, Lawrence. "Light on Baburen and Vermeer", Burlington magazine 93 (1951) 169-170.

RIdIM record id

2885