Soo d'oude songen, soo pepen de Ionghen'

Jordaens, Jacob, the elder (1593-1678)


Item type:
painting
Height:
125.0 cm  (49 3/16 in.)
Width:
189.0 cm  (74 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

As the old sing, so the young pipe

    Item location

  • Olim A. de Pannemaecker Collection, Gent, Belgium.

Description

Group of musicians, one man playing bagpipes, one playing recorder, one playing either a recorder or a whistle, and a fourth singing with music. There is also a woman singing with music.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746]
Recorder [4039]
Whistle [4101]

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) 76, cat. 329, pl LXXIII.

Notes

Title is from a Flemish proverb. Other forms of title: As the old ones sing, so also the young ones pipe ; As the old cock crows, the young one learns.

RIdIM record id

873