Serenade

Jordaens, Jacob, the elder (1593-1678)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
17th century
Height:
110.0 cm  (43 5/16 in.)
Width:
162.0 cm  (63 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Olim Léon Leblon Collection, Antwerp, Belgium. Current location of painting is unknown.

Description

Group of male street musicians, one is playing bagpipes, two are playing piffaro, and the last is singing and holding music.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746]
Piffaro [4239] (two players)

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century. II (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) 83, cat. 362, pl. LXIV.

RIdIM record id

870