David Leeuw (1631/32-1703), koopman te Amsterdam, met zijn gezin

Tempel, Abraham Lambertsz. van den (1622/23-1672)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1671

Height:

190.0 cm  (74 13/16 in.)

Width:

200.0 cm  (78 3/4 in.)

signed low left: Avantempel.aºi67i

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Amsterdam

Additional titles

Description

The family portrayed here is that of the merchant David Leeuw, who was engaged in trade with Russia and around 1670 one of the wealthiest residents of Amsterdam, and his wife Cornelia Hooft. This couple chose to be portrayed on a large scale with their music-making children. The boy on the right, Pieter, plays a viola da gamba, Weyntje in the middle plays a harpsichord, and her two sisters Maria and Cornelia have sheets of music in their hands. The youngest girl, Suzanna, clutches a rattle. The immensely detailed rendition of the sheet music tells us which piece is being performed. It is a balletto by the Italian composer Gastoldi, which was later published in the seventeenth century with a Dutch text.

People as subjects

Leeuw, David (1631/32-1703) (Non-musician/dancer)

Iconclass

42B74
family group, especially parents with their child(ren)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Viola da gamba [3604]
Harpsichord [2251]

Musical works

Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo -- Balletten, lustigh om te zingen, en speelen, met drie stemmen : op nieuws verçiert met een nieuwe ALT, ofte vierde partye, mede doorgaens met de oude ende nieuwe stichtelycke rymen, boven malkander, gestelt, noyt voor dezen zo gedrukt. Hier zyn nochlegible music notation
Gastoldi's song book in Dutch translation, published 1657

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Thiel, P.J.J. van. All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: a completely illustrated catalogue (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum ; Maarssen: G. Schwartz, 1976) 534-535.

Ekkart, R.E.O., et al. Hollanders in beeld: portretten uit de Gouden Eeuw (Zwolle: Waanders, 2007) 51, img. 47.

Eeghen, P. van, "Abraham van den Tempel’s familiegroep in het Rijksmuseum", Oud Holland 68 (1953) nr. 3, 170-174.

RIdIM record id

3099