Italianate landscape with traveling musicians playing for a peasant's family

Goubau, Antoon (1616-1698)


Item type:
painting
Height:
57.1 cm  (22 1/2 in.)
Width:
43.2 cm  (17 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

Additional titles

Zuidelijk landschap met reizende muzikanten die spelen bij een boerenfamilie

    Item location

  • Private collectionProvenance: Old master paintings including European works of art, Sotheby's (New York City) 2004-01-22, afb. kleurenreproductie, lotnr. 251

Description

A depiction of the frequent pairing of hurdy-gurdy and triangle. A boy plays a triangle in a right-handed position. The triangle is closed-ended and has five jingling rings. The boy's triangle beater grip is unique. The lower right monogram reads: A.G.F.

Iconclass

48C7344(TRIANGLE)
other percussion instruments (TRIANGLE)
48C753
more than one musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Triangle (with rings) (5 rings)
Hurdy-gurdy [3305]

RIdIM images


Watermarked image from RKD Images

Image URLs

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Entry in the RKD Images database

Bibliographic references

Berry, Mark. Index of triangle iconography (Bowling Green, Kentucky: Living Sound Publications, 2017).

RIdIM record id

5464

Data provider

RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History