The musician

Helst, Bartholomeus van der (1613-1670)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1662
Height:
138.4 cm  (54 1/2 in.)
Width:
111.1 cm  (43 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 73.2]

Description

Woman tuning a double-headed lute.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Viol [3597]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Fischer, Pieter. Music in paintings of the low countries in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1975) 109.

RIdIM record id

504