Bal aan een Brussels Hof van de aartshertogen

Francken, Frans, II (1581-1642)

Pourbus, Frans, the younger (1569-1622) (formerly attributed to)

Vredeman de Vries, Paul (1567-after 1630)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1610
Height:
68.6 cm  (27 in.)
Width:
113.3 cm  (44 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

Additional titles

Ball at the court of Archdukes Albert and Isabella (at Brussels)

    Item location

  • Mauritshuis
    Koninklijk Kabinet[Museum inv. no.: 244]

Description

Group of musicians and dancers. One man is playing transverse flute, a second is playing lute, a third is singing, a fourth man is dancing, and a woman is dancing.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Transverse flute [4093]

Image URLs

image link 1
RKD image and catalog record

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century. II (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) 53, cat. 216, pl. XXVII.

RIdIM record id

721