The concert

Honthorst, Gerrit van (1592-1656)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1623
Height:
123.5 cm  (48 5/8 in.)
Width:
205.0 cm  (80 11/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 2013.38.1]

Description

The life-size musicians gathered around a table are playing viola da gamba, violin, lute, and bandora. A man is singing. The gamba player is leading the ensemble with his bow, and may be the exiled king of Bohemia, Frederick I, who had moved to The Hague in 1621 with his wife, Elizabeth Stuart, after his Protestant troops were defeated by Catholic forces.

People as subjects

Frederick I, King of Bohemia (1596-1632) (Musician)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viola da gamba [3604]
Violin [3573]
Lute [3394]
Bandora [3319]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
image link 2
Wikimedia Commons image

Bibliographic references

Stover, Michael. "About the cover picture", Lute Society of America quarterly 48/4 (2013) 27.

RIdIM record id

3951