Réjouissance au village

Helmont, Mattheus van (1623-ca. 1674)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1623-1674

Height:

86.0 cm  (33 7/8 in.)

Width:

117.0 cm  (46 1/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

Group of six musicians, one is singing, another singing and holding music, a third is playing bagpipes, a fourth is playing the hurdy-gurdy, a fifth is playing what appears to be either a shawm or another conical wind instrument, and the last musician is playing what appears to be a recorder or shawm. Four of them seem to be from the bourgeoisie or lower class while the other two appear to be street musicians possibly from the bourgeoisie.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Hurdy-gurdy [3305]
Bagpipe [3746]
Shawm [4258]
Recorder [4039]
Drum [2585]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century. II (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) 67, cat. 282, pl. LXIII.

Notes

may be a visual representation of the Flemish proverb: "As the Old Ones Sing, So Also the Young Ones Pipe."

RIdIM record id

503