De fluitles

Steen, Jan (1626-1679) (attributed to)

Item type:

drawing

Height:

20.0 cm  (7 7/8 in.)

Width:

18.0 cm  (7 1/16 in.)

On verso, low left: verzamelaarsmerk Jhr. J. Goll van Franckenstein

Technique / Medium:

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and grey and brown-grey wash, on paper tinted blue

Additional titles

Description

A man dressed in old fashioned clothes is giving shawm lessons to another man seated behind a small table on which are resting a book with music and a bagpipe.
The played instrument has been recognized as a flageolet (1993) or as a recorder (1997). Given the great effort the musician seems to be using to blow in the instrument and the tiny line drawn between his mouth and the body of the instrument (reed) it might more likely for it to be a shawm.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shawm [4258]
Bagpipe [3746]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Plomp, Michiel. The Dutch drawings in the Teyler Museum, vol. 2: Artists born between 1575 and 1630 (Haarlem: Teyler Museum, 1997) 392, no. 455. ISBN: 9070288362.

Notes

The (supposed) original painting, "A Music Master Instructing a Youth to Play the Flageolet"(!!) is in an unknown location: Sold by Christies, 23 April 1993. Ref. Gabrius Data Bank (2002-col.) with the following description:"A villainous looking man with a protruding bottom jaw, in a shabby black cloak and flowerpot hat who leans across a bench on which a music book lies open, to instruct a young lad who plays what appears to be a narrowly conical recorder of alto size. The window/labium is just visible, and the little finger of the lowermost (right) hand is outstretched in reach of its hole. The opening at the foot is wide and the walls rather thin."

RIdIM record id

2914