Young man playing a cello

Bijlert, Jan van (born ca. 1597, died 1671)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1625
Height:
101.0 cm  (39 3/4 in.)
Width:
83.0 cm  (32 11/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Utrecht
School:
Utrecht Caravaggism

    Item location

  • Israel Museum (Jerusalem)
    [Museum inv. no.: B05.0502]Gift of Lila and Herman Schickman, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum

Description

A half length portrait of a man with feathered cap, turned towards the right, in the act of tuning his cello. With his left hand, he is turning one of the four pegs, whereas with the right hand he is bowing on the string he is tuning.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violoncello [3582] (being tuned)

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Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Huys Janssen, Paul. Jan van Bijlert (1597/98-1671): schilder in Utrecht (Utrecht: University of Utrecht, 1994) 164, n. 94.

Huys Janssen, Paul. Jan van Bijlert 1597/98-1671: catalogue raisonné (Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1998) n. 101. ISBN: 155619272X.

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2890