Gallant company

Codde, Pieter Jacobs (1599-1678)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1633
Height:
54.2 cm  (21 5/16 in.)
Width:
68.4 cm  (26 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel
School:
Dutch golden age

Additional titles

The return of the hunters
Galant gezelschap

    Item location

  • Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
    [Museum inv. no.: SK-A-4844]

Description

Two gentlemen enter the room, one holding a partridge, the other a hare. A woman plays the lute on the left side of the painting, and another partially visible lute and a viola da gamba are depicted.

Iconclass

43C1149
return from the hunt

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Theorboed-lute (double-headed)
Viola da gamba [3604]

RIdIM images


Rijksmuseum image

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Burgers, Jan W.J. The lute in the Dutch Golden Age: Musical culture in the Netherlands 1580-1670 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013) plate 30. ISBN 9789089645524. OCLC 861789689.

RIdIM record id

4383