Ball on the terrace of a palace at the court of Don Juan of Austria

Janssens, Hieronymus (1624-1693)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1658

Height:

114.0 cm  (44 7/8 in.)

Width:

170.0 cm  (66 15/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

Painting includes 8 musicians (minstrels) and onlookers, ball guests, etc. Five men are playing what appear to be violins or violas, one man is playing a violoncello, and the other two are playing a bow necked box lute (probably a viola).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573] (five)
Violoncello [3582]
Viola [3561]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century. II (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) 71, cat. 300, pl. XXVIII.

RIdIM record id

844