The duet

Molenaer, Jan Miense (ca. 1610-1668)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1629
Height:
64.1 cm  (25 1/4 in.)
Width:
50.5 cm  (19 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Seattle Art Museum
    Samuel H. Kress Collection[Museum inv. no.: 61.162]

Description

A young couple is making music in an interior: the young man is playing a lute and the young woman holds a recorder.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (extended pegbox for bass strings)
Recorder [4039]

RIdIM images


Seattle Art Museum

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Suida, W.E. European paintings and sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (Seattle Art Museum, 1954) 66.

Weller, D.P. Jan Miense Molenaer (c. 1609/1610-1668): the life and art of a seventeenth-century Dutch painter (1992) n. 2.

RIdIM record id

2924