A musical party in a courtyard

Hooch, Pieter de (1629-1684)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1677
Height:
83.5 cm  (32 7/8 in.)
Width:
68.5 cm  (27 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery (London)
    [Museum inv. no.: NG3047]

Description

Rather than a more commonplace violin, de Hooch's musician in this intimate gathering appears to be playing a tenor viola, a larger bodied instrument popular throughout Europe until about 1700 and played in a vertical position (like a treble viol).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tenor viola [4967]

RIdIM images


Photo © The National Gallery, London

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Wieseman, Marjorie E. Vermeer and music: The art of love and leisure (London: National Gallery Company, 2013) 40-41, cat. no. 6. RILM 2013-5919.

RIdIM record id

3552