Vijf musicerende kinderen

Keller, Johann Heinrich (1692-1765)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1753
Height:
206.0 cm  (81 1/8 in.)
Width:
105.0 cm  (41 5/16 in.)
Grisaille, signed and dated lower right: JHKeller / 1753, JHK monogrammed
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Den Haag

Additional titles

Five children making music

    Item location

  • Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
    [Museum inv. no.: SK-A-1215]

Description

Five children are making music in the open air: on the left two are playing horns; in the center one is playing a bagpipe; on the right one is singing out of a book and the other is playing an end-blown flute. In the foreground a violin is resting on a thin music book under which a flute is recognizable.

Iconclass

43C7432
children playing musical instruments

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Horn [4118]
Bagpipe [3746]
End-blown flute [3940]
Flute [3955]

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Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Thiel, P.J.J. van. All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: a completely illustrated catalogue (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum; Maarssen: G. Schwartz, 1976) 314. ISBN: 9061790107.

RIdIM record id

2898