Family concert

Jordaens, Jacob, the elder (1593-1678)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

17th century

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Two women singing with music and one child playing recorder.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Recorder [4039]

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century. II (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) 75, cat. 324, pl. LXXV.

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

880