Musizierende Gesellschaft

Hooch, Pieter de (1629-1684)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1644-1683
Height:
92.0 cm  (36 1/4 in.)
Width:
105.5 cm  (41 9/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

A music party
Musicerend gezelschap in een interieur
Musical company in an interior

    Item location

  • Statens Museum for Kunst (København)
    [Museum inv. no.: KMSsp613]

Description

Group of two women and two men performing music. The woman singing from the music book appears to be keeping the beat with her right hand. There is another man looking off the music book, a man playing the violin, and a woman playing the cello. Additionally, there is a woman in the background holding a bowl of apples.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violoncello [3582]
Violin [3573]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Salmen, Walter. Haus- und Kammermusik. Musikgeschichte in Bildern IV/3 (Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1969) 50-55, Abbildung 10.

RIdIM record id

4579