As the old sing, so the young pipe

Jordaens, Jacob, the elder (1593-1678)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1640-1645
Height:
145.5 cm  (57 5/16 in.)
Width:
218.0 cm  (85 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Canada
    [Museum inv. no.: 15790]

Description

Group of musicians, one man is singing with a group around a table, one woman is singing with music, one man is playing what appears to be a shawm, and a child is playing recorder.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shawm [4258]
Recorder [4039]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Boggs, Jean Sutherland. The National Gallery of Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1971) 94-95.

RIdIM record id

853