A woman playing the theorbo-lute and a cavalier

Borch, Gerard ter, the younger (1617-1681)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1658

Height:

36.8 cm  (14 1/2 in.)

Width:

32.4 cm  (12 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on wood

Description

A woman playing lute; a young man seated on the table; on the table an open music book (barely legible).

Iconclass

33C2
lovers; courting, flirting

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (Double-headed lute with unfingered bass strings)

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3695