A concert of cats, owls, a magpie and a monkey in a barn

Saftleven, Cornelis (1607-1681)


Item type:
painting
Height:
48.8 cm  (19 3/16 in.)
Width:
48.8 cm  (19 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

    Description

    In a barn a group of animals is gathered around a large music book from which they are singing. A boy is accompanying them with a shawm under the eyes of another man standing behind a column.

    Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

    Bagpipe [3746] (broken)
    Viola [3561] (no strings are visible)
    Shawm [4258]

    Musical works

    legible music notation

    Image URLs

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    Bibliographic references

    Schulz, Wolfgang. Cornelis Saftleven 1607-1681: Leben und Werke, mit einem kritischen Katalog der Gemälde und Zeichnungen (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1978) 195, nr. 532. ISBN 9783110074741.

    Sutton, Peter C. Old master paintings from the Hascoe collection (Greenwich, Conn.: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2005) 16, nr. 4.

    RIdIM record id

    3166