Group portrait: A wedding celebration

Tilborgh, Gillis van, the younger (ca. 1625-ca. 1678)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
17th century
Height:
115.7 cm  (45 9/16 in.)
Width:
160.7 cm  (63 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
School:
Flemish

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 71.32]

Description

Among a group of people, gathered for a wedding celebration in front of a house, are two men playing instruments: cittern? (depiction not clear), and recorder; a third man seems to play fiddle or violin (instrument not visible) holding a bow (depiction not clear) in his right hand.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cittern [3106] (depiction unclear)
Recorder [4039]
Violin [3573] (depiction unclear)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3611