A musical party

Metsu, Gabriel (1629-1667)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1659
Height:
62.2 cm  (24 1/2 in.)
Width:
54.3 cm  (21 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
School:
Dutch golden age

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    Marquand Collection[Museum inv. no.: 91.26.11]

Description

A seated woman is holding (and probably giving to the man on the left side) music in her right hand (notation visible, but hardly legible) and holds a lute in her left hand. On the left side a seated man is tuning a gamba. In front of the woman is music lying on the ground (hardly legible).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Viola da gamba [3604]

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3624