Familiegroep bij een clavecimbel

Troost, Cornelis (1696-1750)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1739
Height:
94.0 cm  (37 in.)
Width:
82.0 cm  (32 5/16 in.)
signed and dated lower left: C. Troost 1739
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Amsterdam

Additional titles

Family portrait at the harpsichord

    Item location

  • Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
    [Museum inv. no.: SK-A-3453]

Description

A family portrait around a harpsichord in an interior. The mother is seated at the instrument, playing on the keyboard with her right hand and, with the left, pointing at the music written on the pages of the opened book on the music stand. Her husband is standing beside her looking and smiling at the viewer. The four children are also looking at the viewer.

Iconclass

42B74
family group, especially parents with their child(ren)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harpsichord [2251]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Rijksmuseum image

Image URLs

image link 1
Rijksmuseum record

Bibliographic references

Staring, Adolph. De Hollanders thuis: gezelschapstukken uit drie eeuwen ('s-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1956) 112.

Niemeijer, J.W. Cornelis Troost, 1696-1750 (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1973) 230, nr. 237S. ISBN 9023210646.

RIdIM record id

2897