Allegory of marital fidelity

Molenaer, Jan Miense (ca. 1610-1668)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1633

Height:

99.0 cm  (39 in.)

Width:

140.9 cm  (55 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

A group of musicians, including a singer, lute player and cellist. The painting also includes a group of drinkers, a standing couple and animals. Two men fight in the distance.

Iconclass

57A62(+2)
Fidelity; 'Fedeltà' (Ripa) (+ allegorical scene, i.e. two or more personifications involved in an action)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Violoncello [3582]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Stevens, Jane R. "Hands, music, and meaning in some seventeenth-century Dutch paintings", Imago musicae: International yearbook of musical iconography 1 (1984): 75-102, fig. 1. RILM 1984-7012.

RIdIM record id

4721