Boy playing a flute

Leyster, Judith (1609-1660)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1630
Height:
62.0 cm  (24 7/16 in.)
Width:
73.0 cm  (28 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Nationalmuseum (Sverige)
    [Museum inv. no.: NM 1120]

Description

A young boy plays a flute, while a recorder and a violin hang on the wall behind him.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093]
Violin [3573] (with bow)
Recorder [4039]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Garrison, Karen. "The artistic flute in the early Baroque period", Flute talk 32/8 (April 2013) 24.

RIdIM record id

3198