Elegant company playing music in an interior

Duck, Jacob (ca. 1600-1667)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1650-1659
Height:
49.0 cm  (19 5/16 in.)
Width:
38.5 cm  (15 3/16 in.)
Signed low left: J.A. DUCK
Technique / Medium:
oil

Additional titles

Elegant musicerend gezelschap in een interieur

    Item location

  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
    Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister[Museum inv. no.: 1388]

Description

A musical company in an interior: on the left a young woman is playing on a treble viol while a woman next to her is falling asleep held in between the arms of a man sitting beside her. On the right a man is playing on a bass gamba while the woman behind him is turning the pages of a music book for the recorder player seated beside her. An old woman appears between the courtains of the bed in the background.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viola da gamba [3604]
Recorder [4039]
Treble viol [3594]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1
RKD entry

Bibliographic references

Salomon, Nanette. Jacob Duck and the gentrification of Dutch genre painting (Doornspijk: DAVACO, 1998) 151, n. 43A, fig. 112. ISBN: 9070288567.

Niederländische und deutsche Maler (17. und 18. Jahrhundert) aus dem Bestand der von der Sowjetregierung dem deutschen Volke übergebenen Gemälde: Sonderausstellung der Dresdener Gemäldegalerie (Dresden: Albertinum Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 1957) 23.

RIdIM record id

2933