Elegant company singing and playing music in an interior

Duck, Jacob (ca. 1600-1667)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1650-1659
Height:
40.0 cm  (15 3/4 in.)
Width:
30.0 cm  (11 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

Additional titles

Familienkonzert

    Item location

  • Unknown ownerLast Auctioned at Christie's, Amsterdam, 06/05/2008, lot nr. 28
    According to the auction catalogue the painting remained unsold.

Description

A musical company gathered around a table: a man on the right is playing on a bass gamba while a woman and a man on the left are singing from a book. On the table is resting a treble viol and a trick-track board.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viola da gamba [3604]
Treble viol [3594]

Image URLs

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RKD record

Bibliographic references

Salomon, Nanette. Jacob Duck and the gentrification of Dutch genre painting (Doornspijk: DAVACO, 1998) 151, n. 45, fig. 110. ISBN: 9070288567.

RIdIM record id

2934