The music lesson

Borch, Gerard ter, the younger (1617-1681)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1668
Height:
66.2 cm  (26 1/16 in.)
Width:
52.4 cm  (20 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
    [Museum inv. no.: P21e24]

Description

A young woman is seated holding a lute and viewing music on a table stand, while a man standing beside her seems to be her teacher. On the table at the left is a viola da gamba. A dog is curled up on a chair at the left.

Iconclass

48C7211
musician training pupils, music-lesson

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (With an extended double pegbox)
Viola da gamba [3604]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5176