The concert

Brugghen, Hendrick ter (1588-1629)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1626
Height:
99.1 cm  (39 in.)
Width:
116.8 cm  (46 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery (London)
    [Museum inv. no.: NG 6483]

Description

A group of three youths are practicing music by candlelight. One is singing, one plays lute and one plays a transverse flute.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093]
Lute [3394]

RIdIM images


Photo © The National Gallery, London

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Garrison, Karen. "The artistic flute in the early Baroque period", Flute talk 32/8 (April 2013) 23.

Wieseman, Marjorie E. Vermeer and music: The art of love and leisure (London: National Gallery Company, 2013) 37, cat. no. 3. RILM 2013-5919.

RIdIM record id

3197