De vrolijke speelman

Vois, Arie de (born 1631 or 1632, died 1680)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1652-1680

Height:

26.0 cm  (10 1/4 in.)

Width:

21.0 cm  (8 1/4 in.)

Signed up right: A. D. Vois f.

Technique / Medium:

oil on panel

Place of creation:

Leiden

School:

Leiden Fine Painters

Additional titles

Description

A man with a big roemer glass in his right hand, half full with wine, is looking towards the right. In his left hand he holds a violin and the bow. The pegs in the pegbox are not all alike: the first from the left (second string) is brown and presents a clover-leaf shape, the second (third string) has a heart shape and is coloured in black; the last two are both black and rounded.

Iconclass

41C323
glass, rummer

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573] (The subject grips the neck of the violin in his right hand. The instrument, or what can be seen of it, appears to be well-rendered.)
Bow [2207]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Sluijter, Eric Jan, Marlies Enklaar and Paul Nieuwenhuizen. Leidse fijnschilders: van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge 1630-1760, (Zwolle: Waanders; Leiden: Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, 1988) 251-252, cat. 89. ISBN: 9066301414.

Thiel, P.J.J. van. All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: a completely illustrated catalogue (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum; Maarssen: G. Schwartz, 1976) 584. ISBN: 9061790107.

Haak, Bob. The golden age: Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, trans. Elizabeth Willem-Treeman (New York: Harry N. Abrahams, 1984) 435–6. ISBN 0810909561.

RIdIM record id

2923