The concert

Baburen, Dirck van (ca. 1595-1624)

Honthorst, Gerrit van (1592-1656) (formerly attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1623
Height:
49.0 cm  (19 5/16 in.)
Width:
65.0 cm  (25 9/16 in.)
Place of creation:
Utrecht

    Item location

  • Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (State Hermitage Museum | Государственный Эрмитаж)
    [Museum inv. no.: 772]

Description

A young company of four people is making music around a table: one boy plays the lute, one the violin and a third boy is playing a cornett. The lutenist is being crowned with a flower wreath from a young girl.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Violin [3573]
Cornett [3868]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Slatkes, Leonard J. Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595-1624): A Dutch painter in Utrecht and Rome (Utrecht: Haentjens Dekker & Gumbert, 1965) 132, cat. A26, plate 23.

Levinson-Lessing, Vladimir F. Catalogue of Western European Paintings of the Hermitage (Leningrad/St. Petersburg, 1958) 130, n. 772, plate 118.

RIdIM record id

2886