Allegorie op de vriendschap tussen de schilder en Joannes Radermacher (1538-1617)

Hoefnagel, Joris (1542-1601)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1589

Height:

22.5 cm  (8 7/8 in.)

Width:

34.5 cm  (13 9/16 in.)

dated low left: 1589

Technique / Medium:

oil on panel

Place of creation:

München

Additional titles

Description

Allegory of the friendship connecting the artist with the merchant Johannes Radermacher. The relationship between the two started in the period they were both in London (1570s). Hoefnagel dedicated other works to his friend, like the books with representations of insects. Here the musical instruments are connected to the young woman with a flower wreath on her head. She might be the personification either of the senses or of the liberal arts. The instruments are collected in a stone basket. The woman holds an opened book with music on her lap.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Violin [3573]
Bow [2207]
Shawm [4258]
Flute [3955]
Oboe [4232] (A double reed is visible. A shawm is also represented (and here mentioned))

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. Catalogus van schilderijen tot 1800 (Rotterdam, 1962) 65-66.

Bol, J.L. "Goede onbekenden V: schilders van bloemen en klein gedierte", Tableau 3 (1981) nr. 2, 444-445, plates 11-12.

Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. The mastery of nature: aspects of art, science and humanism in the Renaissance (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993) 89-90, 94, image 42. ISBN 9780691032054.

RIdIM record id

2951