Boy singing

Brugghen, Hendrick ter (1588-1629)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1627

Height:

85.2 cm  (33 9/16 in.)

Width:

73.6 cm  (29 in.)

Framed: 104.8 x 93.3 cm (41 1/4 x 36 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

School:

Dutch golden age

Description

Commentary from the museum website:
Like many artists from the Dutch city of Utrecht, Ter Brugghen admired the vividly naturalistic figures and dramatic lighting in paintings by the early seventeenth-century Italian painter, Caravaggio. These artists often dressed their figures in colorful costumes similar to those worn by street entertainers and very different from the sober, black-and-white garments worn by men and women of the time. The singer's open mouth and raised right hand, beating time, give this picture a lively and engaging sense of the moment.

Iconclass

31D11221
boy (child between toddler and youth)
48C755
vocal music, singing
49MM32
book - MM - book open
48C741
printed edition of musical score

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5977