Lute player

Aelst, Evert van (1602-1657)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
17th century
Height:
15.2 cm  (6 in.)
Width:
11.0 cm  (4 5/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
black chalk and oiled brown chalk(?) on parchment

Description

Sketch of a man behind a table, his left elbow resting on the table and supporting a lute in his left hand; his head is turned to face toward the viewer; an overturned jug and a long pipe are also visible

Iconclass

48C751
one person with musical instrument, not playing

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Description from the museum website:
This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.

RIdIM record id

5726