Elegant paar in een park

Muys, Nicolaas (1740-1808)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1778

Height:

29.0 cm  (11 7/16 in.)

Width:

20.0 cm  (7 7/8 in.)

Dated lower right: 1778

Technique / Medium:

watercolor on paper

Additional titles

Description

An elegant young couple is resting in a park. The young man is crowning the lady with a flower wreath. Several musical instruments are scattered around the couple: a cittern-like instrument in the foreground and two wind instruments close to the standing man. The woman is holding a sheet of music paper in her right hand.

Iconclass

25I13
public gardens, park

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cittern [3106] (Long-necked cittern-shaped instrument with 5 or 6 strings)
Flute [3955]
Oboe [4232] (not clearly depicted: likely a shawm or oboe)

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Ham, Gijs van der. "Keuze uit de aanwisten", Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 53/1 (2005) 74-87.

RIdIM record id

2916