Tavern scene

Buytewech, Willem Pietersz. (born 1591 or 1592, died 1624)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1615-1620
Height:
52.0 cm  (20 1/2 in.)
Width:
62.0 cm  (24 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
canvas

Additional titles

Herbergscène

    Item location

  • Museum Bredius
    [Museum inv. no.: 150-1946]

Description

On the left side of this tavern scene, a man sits playing on a wooden flute. From his belt hang several cylindrical cases probably intended for the flute or flutes when not being played.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Buijsen, Edwin and Louis Peter Grijp. The Hoogsteder exhibition of music and painting in the golden age (The Hague: Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder; Zwolle: Waanders, 1994) 159, cat. no. 8. RILM 1994-8665.

RIdIM record id

3569