PLEASE DO NOT SEND ADDITIONAL ENTRIES. The entries published here are only the ones for which I have somewhat respectable bibliographic entries at this time. I have much more information for these and for additional entries which will be added as I get around to it. I didn't set out to compile a bibliography -- or, more properly, an iconography. This list is just what happens to be lying about the house. It is very much a work in progress, but if I waited until everything was perfect, it would never appear.
However, I would appreciate corrections -- wrong page references, for example. Send corrections to
Mary Rasmussen
Music Department
University of New Hampshire
Durham NH 03824 (USA)
I am singularly error-prone, alas, and I am sure that there are numerous mistakes in this list. Sorry.
The purpose of this iconography is to answer the question "Where can I find an illustration of ...?" I have included only works of art for which there is a published reproduction (plus some that are in the Visual Collection, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University and a few in the Bild-Archiv Photo Marburg).
Many thanks to Isabel Gray and the UHN Music Department for putting this index on their web page.
Note: bells in belfries and handbells are clapper bells unless otherwise noted.
Nativity: [J Wtewael Pa] Wtewael, Joachim Anthonisz (1566-1638). Adoration of the Shepherds (1625). Madrid Prado. One shepherd has a hurdy-gurdy at his waist at the back. Another (contrapposto) holds a bagpipe. (A. W. Lowenthal. Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism. Doornspijk 1986. cat. A-91, pl. 127) Related painting (private collection) (Lowenthal cat. A-82, pl. 115; exh Galerie Sankt-Lucas, Vienna, 1961. cat. no. 6 [ok reproduction])
Vice/Virtue: [Goltzius Pr] Goltzius, Hendrick (1558-1617). "Levamen Onustorum"/Relief of Sufferings, from Allegories of Faith (1578). engraving. Includes a blind hurdy-gurdy player in the left background, his small instrument hung at his hip. (IB vol. 3, no. 65, p. 65. as The Ill and Crippled Surrounding Christ the Healer; W. L. Strauss. Hendrick Goltzius, the Complete Engravings and Woodcuts. New York 1977. no. 56)
[Goltzius-Matham Pr] Jacob Matham (1571-1631) after Hendrick Goltzius. Tabula Cebetis/The Picture of Thebes. engraving. A beggar in the left center foreground has a hurdy-gurdy hung on his back. More elegant figures at a picnic at the far left play viol, flute and shawm. (IB vol. 4, no. 139, pp. 128-29)
Other: [Venne Pa] Venne, Adriaen Pietersz van de (1589-1662). "Arme Weelde"/Poor Luxury (1635). Rotterdam BvB. An allegory of Poverty. A beggar plays a hurdy-gurdy. (L. J. Bol. Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne. Doornspijk 1989. p. 83; Haak. p. 97; exh Philadelphia, etc., 1984: Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting. no. 114, pl. 26 [fine color rerpoduction]. As a satire on the contrived festiveness of the miserable dancers. The outstretched arms doubtless a pun on "arm" [poor, arm])
[Venne Pa] _______. "Lief Gerief"/Beloved Money. private collection. Includes a beggar playing a hurdy-gurdy. (L. J. Bol. Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne. Doornspijk 1989. p. 90 [ok reproduction])
[Goltzius-Dolendo Pr] Zaccharis Dolendo (1561/73-a.1604) after Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). The Blind Leading the Blind (1586). Two blind men, one of them with a small hurdy-gurdy hung at his hip, are about to tumble into a ditch. (IB vol. 3, no. 2, p. 371; IB vol. 3, Commentary, no. 0301.093a, p. 87; W. L. Strauss. Hendrick Goltzius, the Complete Engravings and Woodcuts. New York 1977. no. 229)
[Venne Dr] Venne, Adriaen Pietersz van de (1589-1662). "Elck sijn gading"/To Each his Own (1638). Amsterdam Rpk. drawing. Includes a beggar playing a hurdy-gurdy, a child playing a rommel pot and a dancing dog. (L. J. Bol. Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne. Doornspijk 1989. p. 70 [ok reproduction])
[Venne Pa] _______. "Armoe soeckt List"/Poverty Leads to Cunning. private collection. A blind couple and a dog on a country road. He plays a hurdy-gurdy, she plays a rommel pot. (L. J. Bol. Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne. Doornspijk 1989. p. 86 [fine color reproduction]; exh The Hague 1994: Music & Painting in the Golden Age. no. 43, p. 307 [fine color reproduction]; exh Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 2002-03, etc.: Jan Miense Molenaer, Painter of the Dutch Golden Age. p. 53 [not exhibited], as ca.1635; exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. p. 54 [not exhibited], as ca.1625-30; exh Providence, RISD, Museum of Art, 1964: Northern Baroque Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of H. H. Weldon. no. 26)
Beggars: See also Allegory, Other; Emblems and Proverbs.
[BI Leiden 1610] Johann Wierix (1549/50-1615/18) after Gerard P. Groenning (Gerard van Groeningen) (op. from ca.1573). Carousing Beggars from Recht ghebruyck ende misbruyck van tijdlicke have. Leiden 1610. engraving. Beggars on a little hillock in the background play hurdy-gurdy and bagpipe. unimp. (de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. p. 112 [small reproduction, not exhibited])
[Pr Anon.] Dutch, 17th century. Beggar Couple. etching. A man with a peg leg plays a hurdy-gurdy and an old woman sings or reads from a ballad sheet. (Bröcker Drehleier. no. 148 [after T. Hampe. Die fahrende Leute in der deutschen Vergangenheit, fig. 78]; Oud-Holland 95 [1981] 25 [ok reproduction])
[Venne Pa] Venne, Adriaen Pietersz van de (1589-1662). "Allom-arm"/Round-Dance of the Wretched (1635). The Hague, Mauritshuis. Includes a beggar playing a barely-visible hurdy-gurdy. (L. J. Bol. Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne. Doornspijk 1989. p. 85)
[Venne-Matham Pr] Adriaen Matham (ca.1599-1660) after Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne. "Het Stoters Lied"/The Song of the Cheats. engraving. A woman sings, and a man with a peg-leg plays a hurdy-gurdy. (exh The Hague 1994: Music & Painting in the Golden Age. p. 310 [not exhibited], with text and English translation)
Itinerant/Street Musicians: [Venne Pa] Venne, Jan van de (op.1616-ca.1651). Beggar Musicians. Vienna KH. Two figures: a hurdy-gurdy player and a child with a triangle. (exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. p. 61 [not exhibited], as 1620's; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica ... no. V.16, p. 280 [ok color reproduction])
[Pseudo Venne Pa] Venne, Adriaen Pietersz van de (1589-1662), Pseudo. Two Musicians. The Hague, Museum Bredius. A man plays a hurdy-gurdy and a child plays a triangle. (G. Briganti et al. The Bamboccianti ... Rome 1983. p. 195)
Life and Death: [P II Breughel Pa] Breughel, Pieter II (1564-1637/38). The Triumph of Death (1626). Cleveland, the Mildred Andrews Fund. A version of the painting by Pieter I in Vienna KH. A woman sings and a dying man plays a lute as Death fiddles behind him. Skeletons play hurdy-gurdy, violin (?), trumpets and (elsewhere) kettledrums. Skeletons ring two large clapper bells hung from a tree. A skeleton riding a nag pulling a wagon full of skulls rings a clapper bell. (exh Essen, Vienna, 1997-98: Breughel-Brueghel; Flämische Malerei um 1600 ... no. 13, p. 107 [small, unhelpful color reproduction]. Notes that Pieter II knew the painting in Vienna only from an engraving.; exh Cremona 1998: Breughel-Brueghel; Tradizione e Progresso: una famiglia di pittori fiamminghi tra cinque e seicento. p. 21 [small, unhelpful color reproduction, not exhibited])
[J I Brueghel Pa] Brueghel, Jan I (1568-1625). The Triumph of Death. Graz, Alte Galerie des SLM. A version of the painting by Pieter I in Vienna KH. A woman sings and a dying man plays a lute (a case of flutes beside him) as Death fiddles behind him. Skeletons play hurdy-gurdy, trumpets and (separately) kettledrums. Skeletons ring two large clapper bell hung from a dead tree. A skeleton riding a nag pulling a wagon full of skulls rings a clapper bell. (exh Essen, Vienna, 1997-98: Breughel-Brueghel; Flämische Malerei um 1600 ... no. 14, p. 113 [color reproduction]. Notes is dated 1597, but 1610-20 more likely.; exh Cremona 1998: Breughel-Brueghel; Tradizione e Progresso: una famiglia di pittori fiamminghi tra cinque e seicento. p. 20 [color reproduction, not exhibited])
Another (copy, attr. Jan II Brueghel). Vaduz, Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein. (exh Essen, Vienna, 1997-98: Breughel-Brueghel; Flämische Malerei um 1600 ... p. 112 [minuscule reproduction])
Music/Poetry/Liberal Arts: [Ta Milan Sforzesco] Flemish (Bruges -- cartoon by Cornelis Schut [1597-1655]), 17th century. Music, from a Liberal Arts series. Milan, Castello Sforzesco. tapestry. Includes figures playing violin (?), cello, harp and lute. Unplayed: hurdy-gurdy, pommer (only the bell visible) and triangle. (G. G. Belloni. Il Castello Sforzesco di Milano. Milan 1966. no. 139) Another (Zamora, Cathedral) My notes say figures play violin, harp and theorbo-lute (heads reversed). Not played: hurdy-gurdy, lute, shawm, cornett and triangle. (A. Gomez and B. Chillón. Los tapices de la catedral de Zamora. Zamora 1925. pl. 18)
Vice/Virtue: [P II Breughel] Breughel, Pieter II (ca.1564-1638). The Battle between Carnival and Lent. Brussels MRBA. Includes a hurdy-gurdy player accompanying circle dancers. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 135 [March 2000] La Chronique des Arts no. 1574, p. 33 [small, unhelpful reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). The Seven Works of Mercy (1639). Brussels MRBA. Includes a blind beggar with a hurdy-gurdy. (Härting Francken. cat. 274, p. 309 [small reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] _______. The Seven Works of Mercy. Manchester, City Art Gallery. Includes a blind beggar who may have a hurdy-gurdy beneath his cloak. (Härting Francken. cat. 272, p. 308 [ok reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] _______. The Seven Works of Mercy (1630). Munich AP. Includes a pominent blind beggar with a hurdy-gurdy. (Brussels MRBA Bulletin 18 [1969] 145 [poor reproduction])
[Horenbault Pr] Horenbault, Jacques (doc.1608). Allegory of the Vices (1608). engraving. Includes a gentleman serenading his lady with his lute. There are also two blind men (one with a hurdy-gurdy) tumbling in a brook. A pastiche. (Hollstein [Dutch] IX, no. 1, p. 146 [useless reproduction])
[P II Breughel Pa] Breughel, Pieter II (1564-1637/38). Two Blind Men Falling into a Brook. Prague NG (loan). One has a partly visible hurdy-gurdy hung at his hip. (exh Essen, Vienna, 1997-98: Breughel-Brueghel; Flämische Malerei um 1600 ... no. 108, p. 349 [ok color], as before 1616. Apparently after an engraving by Pieter I [repr. p. 348], which has no hurdy gurdy.)
Another (private collection). (exh Essen, Vienna, 1997-98: Breughel-Brueghel; Flämische Malerei um 1600 ... p. 348 [small reproduction])
Fairs/Festivals: [P II Breughel Pa] Breughel, Pieter II (1564-1637/38). Large Village Festival with a Theatrical Performance. Graz, Alte Galerie des Steiermärkischen Landesmuseum Joanneum. Includes an itinerant (blind?) hurdy-gurdy player; a pipe and tabor player accompanying seven dancers; a bagpiper accompanying dancers; a drummer with a company of archers; a bagpiper in a wagon and a drummer with his drum on his back disappearing in front of the wagon; and a fool with bells on his cap with a group of children. (exh Essen, Vienna, 1997-98: Breughel-Brueghel; Flämische Malerei um 1600 ... no. 143, p. 417 [ok color reproduction], as after 1616. Notes is based on a painting by Pieter Balten [Amsterdam RM].; exh Cremona 1998: Breughel-Brueghel; Tradizione e Progresso: una famiglia di pittori fiamminghi tra cinque e seicento. p. 114 [minuscule reproduction])
[P II Breughel Pa] _______, attr. A Village Fair. London art market (1954). Includes dancers accompanied by players of hurdy-gurdy and bagpipe. These are the musicians of the Philadelphia Johnson collection duo (see Miscellaneous Figures, Village/Rustic Musicians, below), reversed, with with less convincing facial detail. (Connoisseur 133 [1954] 257 [small reproduction])
[P III Breughel Pa] Brueghel, Pieter III (1589-doc. to 1608). The Feast of St. Catherine. London art market (1986). A solo dancer is accompanied by players of hurdy-gurdy and pipe and tabor. (sale, Phillips, London, 9.XII.1986; Burlington 128 [1986] November ad p. xvi [color reproduction])
[J I Brueghel Pa] Brueghel, Jan I (1568-1625). Village Festival (1612). Munich AP. Includes vigorous dancers accompanied by a woman playing violin and a man playing a hurdy-gurdy. In the center background there are more dancers, perhaps accompanied by players of violin and cello. (exh Essen, Vienna, 1997-98: Breughel-Brueghel; Flämische Malerei um 1600 ... no. 56, p. 213 [small color reproduction], 214 [splendid color, including the background group, but even there impossible to determine the musicians]; exh Cremona 1998: Breughel-Brueghel; Tradizione e Progresso: una famiglia di pittori fiamminghi tra cinque e seicento. p. 37 [the big color detail only, not exhibited])
Copy (Turin Sabauda). (R. Cogniat. Seventeenth Century Painting. New York 1964. pl. 60 [poor reproduction]; Ventiquattro Capolavori della Galleria Sabauda di Torino. Turin [1951]. p. 59 [not helpful for details])
Inn Scenes: [D I Teniers Pa] Teniers, David I (1582-1649). Peasants Feasting. San Francisco De Young. Includes players of violin and cello and (separately) hurdy-gurdy. (Vis. Coll. 374.1.T253.90[h])
[Vinckboons Dr] Vinckboons, David (1576-1631/33). Peasants Dancing Outside an Inn. Oxford Ashmolean. A fairly vulgar crowd, accompanied by a hurdy-gurdy player. (K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 69; K. T. Parker. Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford 1938. cat. 90, pl. XVIII; Vis. Coll. 374.1d.V741.91[b]) Engraved (partly reversed, but in both the hurdy-gurdy player is right handed) by Pieter Serwouters (1586-1657). (de Jongh-Luijtens Mirror. no. 17, p. 111 [fine reproduction]; E. Sudeck. Bettlerdarstellungen ... Strasbourg 1931. Abb. 27; Muziek & Grafiek. no. 71, p. 119 [fair reproduction])
[Vinckboons Pa] _______. Peasants Dancing Outside an Inn. private collection. They are accompanied by a hurdy-gurdy player. (K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 68)
Street Scenes: [F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Miracles at the Tomb of St. Bruno. Antwerp KMSK. Includes a street musician with a hurdy-gurdy. (Härting Francken. cat. 249, p. 300 [minuscule reproduction], as ca.1630)
Views: [Miel Pa] Miel, Jan (1599-1663). View of the Pont Neuf, Paris. Wilanow, Palace. Includes a street musician playing a hurdy-gurdy. (Warsaw MN Bulletin 8 [1967] 112, 121 [detail of the hurdy-gurdy player]. Notes is after della Bella)
Village/Rustic Scenes: [P II Breughel] Breughel, Pieter II (ca.1564-1638). A Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Swarm of Children. Manchester, City AG. (Vis. Coll. 374.1.B834.91[a])
[P II Breughel Pa] _______. The Bean Dance (1620). London art market (1970). The dancers are accompanied by players of hurdy-gurdy and pipe (very long, too many finger holes) and drum (no visible means of support, sort of disappears into the player's thigh). (sale, Sotheby's, 8.IV.1970; Burlington 112 [1970] March ad p. xv)
[P II Breughel Pa] _______. The Inn "St. Michael." private collection. Includes a blind hurdy-gurdy player viewed through the inn. Tiny detail. (exh Essen, Vienna, 1997-98: Breughel-Brueghel; Flämische Malerei um 1600 ... no. 151, p. 145 [ok color reproduction], as after 1616)
[P II Breughel Pa] _______. Return from the Fair. London art market (1996). There may be a hurdy-gurdy player with children (tiny detail) in the left background. (sale, Phillips, London, 10.XII.1996; Burlington 138 [1996] November ad p. vii [ok color reproduction]; Burlington 139 [1997] April ad p. vii [ok color reproduction])
[Diepenbeck Dr] Diepenbeck, Abraham van (1596-1675). Peasants Merrymaking beneath a Tree. London BM. drawing. Children dance, accompanied by a hurdy-gurdy player. (Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists, vol. II. London 1923. pl. LI)
[Vinckboons Pa] Vinckboons, David (1578-1629). Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Swarm of Children. Amsterdam RM. (C. Brown. Images of a Golden Past ... New York 1984. p. 19 [ok color reproduction]; K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. pp. 109, 110 [detail], as ca.1610; exh The Hague 1994: Music & Painting in the Golden Age. p. 309 [fair reproduction, not exhibited]; Oud-Holland 95 [19812] 19)
[Vinckboons Pa] _______. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Swarm of Children. Frankfurt am Main SKI. (Leppert Theme. no. 733, pl. LVI)
[Vinckboons Pa] _______. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Swarm of Children. private collection. (K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 105, as ca.1606/07)
[Vinckboons Pa] _______. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Swarm of Children. location unknown. (exh Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984: Masters of Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting. p. 279 [minuscule reproduction])
[Vinckboons Pa] _______. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Swarm of Children. private collection. (K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 104, as 1605)
[Vinckbooks-Visscher Pr] Claes Jansz Visscher (1586/87-1652) after David Vinckboons. Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Flock of Children. engraving. (Hollstein [Dutch] XXIX, no. 110, p. 69)
Rustic/Village Musicians: [P II Breughel Pa] Breughel, Pieter II (ca.1564-1638). Hurdy-Gurdy Player and Bagpiper. Philadelphia, Museum of Art, the John G. Johnson Collection. (1914 catalog of German, etc., paintings, no. 1176, p. 206?; Vis. Coll. 374.1.B834.90[s])
Music/Poetry/Liberal Arts: [BI Paris 1587] Anon. "Mvsiqve," from Christofle de Savigny, Tableaux accomplis de tous les arts liberaux. Paris, Jean Libert, 1619 [first edn. 1587]. engraving. Many musical instruments, including a hurdy-gurdy. (Imago musicae 1 [1984] 87)
Dances and Dancers: [Pa Montpellier Fabre] Franco-Flemish, early 17th century. Village Dance. Montpellier, Musée Fabre. The dancers are accompanied by players of a (partly visible) hurdy-gurdy and a violin. (Revue du Louvre 15 [1965] 224)
Ateliers: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Putti.
Beggars: [Bellange Pr] Bellange, Jacques (fl.1602-1617). Beggar with a Hurdy-Gurdy in a Fight. etching. (Bröcker Drehleier. no. 16 [after Sudeck]; B. Nicolson and C. Wright. Georges de La Tour. London 1974. fig. 53, opp. p. 23; G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 26 [fine reproduction]; E. Sudeck. Bettlerdarstellungen ... Strasbourg 1931. fig. 42; J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. p. 64 [small reproduction]; N. Walch. Die Radierungen des Jacques Bellange. Chronologie und kritischer Katalog. Munich 1971. no. 18 [second state], as 1615; exh Rennes MBA 2001: Jacques de Bellange. Ed. J. Thuillier. no. 31, p. 183 [fine reproduction], as "Rix entre un mendiant et un pelerin"; exh Des Moines, etc. 1975: The Etchings of Jacques Bellange. ed. A. N. Worthen and S. W. Reed. no. 26 [fine reproduction]; exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. p. 22 [not exhibited]; exh New York, Metropolitan, 1995: The French Renaissance in Prints from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. no. 192, p. 458; exh Rotterdam BvB 1949: Drie Eeuwen Prentkunst. cat. 95, Afb. 9; Burlington 111 [December 1969] Notable Works II, pl. XXVII [fine reproduction, first state])
Dwarfs: [Callot Pr] Callot, Jacques (1592-1635). Hunchbacked Dwarf Playing a Hurdy-Gurdy, from Varie figure gobbi. etching. (H. Daniel. Callot's Etchings. New York 1974. fig. 143; G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 161 [fine reproduction])
Itinerant/Street Musicians: [Po Paris Louvre] French, 17th century. Hurdy-Gurdy Player. Paris, Louvre. pottery (faience) figure. (Le XVIIe siècle français. Paris 1958. p. not recorded, as ca.1620)
[Appier Pr] Appier, Jean (called Hanzelet) (1596-1630). A Man Playing a Hurdy-Gurdy and a Boy Playing a Triangle. etching. (exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. p. 58, as ca.1615 [?])
[Bellange Pr] Bellange, Jacques (fl.1602-1617). Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player. etching. (Bröcker Drehleier. no. 161 [after Sudeck]; Mirimonde Iconographie musicale. vol. 1, fig. 112 [ok reproduction]; B. Nicolson and C. Wright. Georges de La Tour. London 1974. fig. 51, opp. p. 23; E. Sudeck. Bettlerdarstellungen ... Strasbourg 1931. fig. 43; B. J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. p. 24; N. Walch. Die Radierungen des Jacques Bellange. Chronologie und kritischer Katalog. Munich 1971. no. 21, as 1615; exh Rennes MBA 2001: Jacques de Bellange. Ed. J. Thuillier. no. 30, p. 182 [fine reproduction]; exh Des Moines, etc. 1975 : The Etchings of Jacques Bellange. ed. A. N. Worthen and S. W. Reed. no. 27; exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. p. 22 [not exhibited]; Oud-Holland 95 [1981] 26 [ok reproduction])
[Bellange Dr] _______, attr. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player. private collection. drawing. (Burlington 114 [1972] 522. Anthony Blunt notes, p. 591: "The drawing is inscribed "Jehan de laroux," and it has been suggested that this may be the name of the model rather than the signature of the artist.")
[Brebiette Pr] Brebiette, Pierre (1598-ca.1650). Itinerant Musicians. engraving. Two figures: a man playing a hurdy-gurdy and a child playing a triangle. (Imago musicae 4 [1987] 129)
[Callot Pr] Callot, Jacques (1592-1635). Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player, from a series of beggars. etching. (E. de Bechtel. Jacques Callot. New York 1955. fig. 123 [ok reproduction], as 1624; Bröcker Drehleier. no. 158, after A. Jacquot. La musique en Lorraine. fig. 23; H. Daniel. Callot's Etchings. New York 1974. fig. 154; Hirth no. 1848; Mirimonde Iconographie musicale. vol. I, fig. 111 [ok reproduction]; G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 153; W. Stauder. Alte Musikinstrument ... Braunschweig 1973. p. 153; J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. p. 24; exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. p. 38 [not exhibited], as ca.1622; Musica calendar 1974: 17-30 November [ok reproducton]; Early Music 3 [1975] 35; Oud-Holland 95 [1981] 27)
[La Tour Pa] La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652). Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player with His Dog. Bergues, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire. (B. Nicolson and C. Wright. Georges de La Tour. London 1974. cat. no. 58, pl. 8 [fair reproduction] and opp. p. 187 [color reproduction], as ca.1618-19. Notes that the painting is "in ruined condition." Restored in Paris in 1972, "at which time the hurdy-gurdy was reconstructed with the aid of old prints of musical instruments"; J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. cat. no. 16, pp. 24 [small reproduction], 85 [splendid color reproduction] [and p. 84, nice color reproduction of the delightful dog]; exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. cat. no. 5, p. 34 [fine color reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 375.L3523.90[c])
[La Tour Pa] _______. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player (fragment). Brussels MRBA. (B. Nicolson and C. Wright. Georges de La Tour. London 1974. cat. no. 68, fig. 49 [small reproduction and small x-ray photograph]. Notes that "The present surface is totally overpainted." The original might not even have depicted a hurdy -gurdy at all [the hands are placed differently]; J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. cat. no. 117, pp. 63 [fine color reproduction], 62 [ok reproduction of the x-ray photograph])
[La Tour Pa] _______. Beggars Fighting. Los Angeles Getty. The beggars have hurdy-gurdy, violin, shawm, shawm/pommer and bagpipe. I guess the little metal object the hurdy-gurdy player has in his left hand is the crank for his instrument. (sale Christie's London 8.XII.1972; Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 902; B. Nicolson and C. Wright. Georges de La Tour. London 1974. cat. no. 56, pl. 36, and various details pll. 37-40. As ca.1627-30; J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. cat. no. 14, pp. 65 [greenish color reproduction], 67-71 [splendid color details]; exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. cat. 9, pp. 53 [color reproduction], 238-239 [splendid color details], as ca.1625-27; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica ... no. V.18, pp. 282-83 [splendid color reproduction, but in page crease], as ca.1620-25; exh Rome, 2000-01: Colori della Musica; Dipinti, strumenti e concerti tra Cinquecento e Seicento. p. 67 [small reproduction, not exh]; Burlington 113 [1971] 668) Copy (Chambéry, Musée). (Lesure [English] fig. 32; Mirimonde Iconographie musicale. vol. I, fig. 130; exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. cat. no. 10, p. 56 [color reproduction]; Burlington 86 [1945] 111 [fair reproduction]; Burlington 113 [1971] 668 [detail])
[La Tour Pa] _______. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player. Madrid Prado. (J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. cat. no. 19, p. 83 [splendid color reproduction]; exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. cat. no. 12, pp. 65 [fine color reproduction], 66 [splendid color detail of most of the hurdy-gurdy], as ca.1630-32)
[La Tour Pa] _______. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player. Nantes MBA. (Bröcker Drehleier. no. 163, after Winternitz; G. Merz et al. Trésors des Musées de Provence. Paris 1957-64. vol. IV. unnumbered p. [fine color reproduction]; Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 901 [fair reproduction]; B. Nicolson and C. Wright. Georges de La Tour. London 1974. cat. no. 57, opp. p. 11 [fine color reproduction], pll. 42 [ok b & w reproduction], 44 [fine b & w detail of the hurdy-gurdy], as ca.1631-34; Pincherle p. 79 [fine color reproduction]; E. Sudeck. Bettlerdarstellungen ... Strasbourg 1931. no. 41 [miserable reproduction; J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. cat. no. 20, pp. 89 [fine color reproduction], 90 [splendid color detail of the hurdy-gurdy], as ca.1631-34; Winternitz Musical Instruments. pl. 20b; exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. cat. no. 11, p. 59 [fine color reproduction], as ca.1628-30; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica p. 66 [not exhibited]; The New Grove vol. 8, p. 817 [poor reproduction]; MGG III, Taf. 15/3; Burlington 86 [1945] 111; Early Music 3 [1975] 35 [poor reproduction]; La Revue des Arts 1 [1951] 150; Revue du Louvre 12 [1962] 263; Vis. Coll. 375.L3523.90[e]) Etching (1847) by Frédéric Villot (1809-1875). ( J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. p. 88)
[La Tour Pa] _______. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player. Remiremont (Vosges), Musée Municipal Charles Friry. (B. Nicolson and C. Wright. Georges de La Tour. London 1974. cat. no. 59, fig. 47 [fair reproduction], as early 1630's; J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. cat. no. 18, p. 87 [fine color reproduction]; exh Washington NGA 1996-97: Georges de la Tour and his World. Ed. P. Conisbee. p. 64 [color reproduction], as ca.1628-30; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica ... no. I,18, p. 141 [fine color reproduction]. Notes that in Bourges in La Tour's time the Augustines of Saint Ambrosius were particularly interested in supporting blind musicians.) Copy (Nancy, Musée Lorrain). ( J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. p. 86 [small reproduction]) Etching by Charles Friry (1802-1884). ( J. Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Paris 1992. p. 86, as ca.1850)
[La Tour Pa] _______. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player [fragment]. private collection. A cut-down version of the painting in Remiremont. (Burlington 133 [1991] 704. Notes P. Rosenberg. "Un nouveau La Tour," in: Scritti in onore di Giuliano BrigantiI. Milan 1990. pp. 169-78, this reproduced in color between pp. 248-249)
Satyrs/Fauns: [Rottenhammer-J I Brueghel Pa] Rottenhammer, Johann (1564-1625) (figures)and Jan I Brueghel (landscape). The Judgement of Midas(1599). Stockholm art market (1980) (ex Potsdam, Schloss Sanssouci). Pan has brought his family with him, including a woman playing a sort of hurdy-gurdy (botch -- it looks a bit like a fish). (Die Weltkunst 50 [1980] 2665)
Dance of Death: [Meglinger Pa] Meglinger, Kaspar (1595-ca.1670). Death and the Leierin. Lucerne, Spreuerbrücke. The Leierin has a hurdy-gurdy hanging from a strap. (Hammerstein Tanz. Abb. 369 [after Synnberg und Rüttger. Der Todtentanz, Gemälde auf der Mühlenbrücke in Luzern. Lucerne 1889])
[Pa ex Bremen St Martini] Anon., early 17th century? Musical trophy on the front of the organ loft. ex Bremen, St. Martini (destroyed in WW II). Includes a hurdy-gurdy. (W. Haacke. Orgeln. Königstein im Taunus n.d. p. 19; W. Haacke. Orgeln in aller Welt. Königstein im Taunus 1965. p. 37 [fair reproduction], organ as 1615-1619)
Beggars: [Herr Dr] Herr (Heer), Michael (1591-1881). St. Martin among the Beggars(1618). Zürich art market (1948) drawing. Beggars play hurdy-gurdy, viol, harp, lute and bagpipe. A rather grisly scene. (sale, L'art ancien, Zürich 1948 [poor reproduction])
[Merian Pr] Merian, Matthaeus (1593-1650). Beggar with a Hurdy-Gurdy in a Fight (1615) (after Bellange). etching. (Wüthrich 1966. cat. 95, Abb. 73)
Itinerant/Street Musicians: [C Maurer Dr] Maurer, Christoph (1558-1614). Banquet (1607). Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Kunstgewerbe Museum. drawing (Scheibenriss). The central scene is flanked by a bagpiper (in a sort of fool's costume, with bells hanging from the slit hem of his tunic) at the left and a Leierin playing her hurdy-gurdy at the right. (R. Zürcher. Die künstlerische Kultur im Kanton Zürich. Zürich 1943. p. 109 [fine reproduction] as by Christoph Maurer, with text by Josias Murer [Josyas Maurer]; Berlin, Kunstgewerbe Museum. Handzeichnungen Schweizer Meister. p. not recorded [fine reproduction], as by Josyas Maurer [1564-1630])
[Merian Pr] Merian, Matthaeus (1593-1650). Hurdy-Gurdy Player (1615) (after Bellange). etching. (Hollstein [German] XXVI, no. 460, p. 161 [fine reproduction]; Wüthrich 1966. cat. 94, Abb. 72)
Putti: [Orpheus Master Dr] Swiss ("Orpheus Master"), late-16th century. Scheibenriss with Orpheus and the Animals and the Allianzwappen of E. Han (-Beck). Basel KK. drawing. Orpheus plays a lute. A harp leans against his thigh. Putti in the bottom border play hurdy-gurdy, flute and frame drum. (P. L. Ganz. Die Basler Glasmaler der Spätrenaissance und der Barockzeit. Basel 1966. Abb. 110, as ca.1593)
Rustic/Village Musicians: [de Bry Pr] Bry, Jan Theodor de (1561-1623). Village Musicians. engraving. Several sing, and others play hurdy-gurdy and bagpipe. (Bröcker Drehleier. no. 134, after Musik und Bild. FS Max Schneider. Kassel 1938. pl. 16, Abb. 2; MGG III, Taf. 16/10 [tiny reproduction])
[BI Wolfenbüttel 1620] Anon. "Allerley Bawren Lyren," from Michael Praetorius, Theatrum Instrumentorum seu Sciagraphia ... Wolffenbüttel 1620. pl. XXII. woodcut. Two hurdy-gurdies, one finger stopped, the other with tangents. (facsimile: Kassel 1958 [Documenta musicologica, Ser. I, 14])
Beggars: [Herrara Pa] Herrara, Francisco, the Elder (ca.1576-1656), attr. Two Beggars. Vienna KH. One of them is a blind hurdy-gurdy player. (exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica ... no. V.17, p. 281 [ok color reproduction]) =? Salzburg, Residenzgalerie (ex Czernin coll). (F. Jiménez-Placer. Historia del arte español. Barcelona 1955. vol. II, p. 666; Salzburg. Residenzgalerie. Katalog der Residenzgalerie Salzburg mit Sammlung Czernin. Salzburg 1955. cat. and pl. no. 17 [fair reproduction]; 1936 catalog of the Czernin collection, pl. 14)
Triumph of David: [Rosselli Pa] Rosselli, Matteo (1578-1651). The Triumph of David. St. Petersburg Hermitage. Six musical Welcoming Women, including one with a hurdy-gurdy. (1964 catalog of Italian 13th-18th century paintings, no. 139; Ermitazh Soobshcheniia8 [1955] 25)
Satyrs/Fauns: [Giancarli-Fialetti Pr] Odoardo Fialetti (1573-1638) after Polifilo Giancarli (doc.1628-1636). A Child Holding Panpipes Seated between a Satyr Holding a Hurdy-Gurdy and a Young Man with Two Panpipes. etching. (IB vol. 38, no. 46, p. 236)
Music/Poetry/Liberal Arts: [Ciamberlano Pr] Ciamberlano, Ludovico (1586-1641). The Arms of the Borghese Surrounded by the Seven Liberal Arts. engraving. Music is represented by figures playing a virginal and a lute ad by a number of unplayed musical instruments, including a prominent hurdy-gurdy. They are copied from Cornelis Cort (ca. 1530-1578) after Frans Floris (1519/20-1570) Musica/Music, from a Seven Liberal Arts series (see Netherlands 16th-century lute list). (IB vol. 44, no. 114, p. 175)
See also Decorative Elements.
Angels: [F Vanni Dr] Vanni, Francesco (1563-1610). Adoration of the Shepherds. Florence Uffizi. drawing. Angels sing and play positive organ, hurdy-gurdy, bass viol and two lutes. Two shepherds have bagpipes. (Vis. Coll. 372d.V3393.22Ad)
Beggars: [Brizio Pr] Brizio, Francesco (1574-1623). Beggars in a Landscape. engraving. One of them has a (partly visible) hurdy-gurdy. (IB vol. 39, no. 1, p. 375. Notes is in Bartsch as Agostino Carracci.)
Itinerant/Street Musicians: [Annibale Carracci-Longjumeau Pr] Gaillard de Longjumeau after Annibale Carracci (1560-1609). Hurdy-Gurdy Player. etching. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts80 [1972] 158)