Ahasueras: [F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Esther and Ahasueras (?). Vienna art market (1961). Musicians play viola da braccio and lute. (sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 6-9.VI.1961, as Feast of Herod; Wetzler sale, Kende, Vienna, 17-19.II.1938)
Belshazzar: [F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Belshazzar's Feast. private collection. Includes musicians playing two violins and a lute. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 87, p. 257 [small reproduction])
Triumph of David: [F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). The Triumph of David. Mainz LM. The Welcoming Women play viola da braccio, double bass, lute, a wind instrument and tambourine. There are figures with at least three partly visible straight trumpets in the background. unimp. (C. Stukenbrock. Niederländische Gemälde des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts [Landesmuseum Mainz]. Mainz 1997. p. 179 [color reproduction])
[Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640), ex attr. The Triumph of David/David Victorious over Goliath, Welcomed to Jerusalem. Ft. Worth TX, the Kimbell Foundation. The Welcoming Women sing and play viol, lute (tuning?), cornett (?) and tambourine. (Held cat. A21, fig. 490 [ok reproduction], as a Flemish painter of the Rubens period; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 167 [minuscule, not exhibited], as by Jan van den Hoecke [1611-1650]; Burlington 111 [1969] 539 [ok reproduction]) A poor copy exh Guadalajara, Mexico, 1942: Arte religioso en Guadalajara. no.87, pl. 39 (poor reproduction).
Jephthah: [Diepenbeeck Dr] Diepenbeeck, Abraham van (1596-1675). The Return of Jephthah. private collection. The Welcoming Women play lute, sharply curved horn and a small frame drum. (Old Master Drawings from the Collection of John and Alice Steiner. Santa Barbara 1986. cat. no. 69, p. 164 [ok reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). The Return of Jephthah. private collection. One of the Welcoming Women plays a lute. (Härting Francken. no. 10, p. 230 [small reproduction], as 1615-1620)
Miriam/Crossing the Red Sea: [Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640), ex attr. Moses, Aaron and Miriam Celebrate the Crossing of the Red Sea. Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle. Women sing (?) and play lute and shawm. Three dance, with two of the dancers playing tambourine and jingle ring. (CRLB III, pl. 49, as by an anonymous Flemish painter; Held cat. A19, fig. 489, as a Flemish painter of Rubens' period; Burlington 111 [1969] 539 [ok reproduction]) A fragment in Graz, Alte Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum (CRLB III, pl. 48, as anonymous Flemish painter)
Other: [BI Antwerp n.d.] Adriaen Collaert (ca.1550-1618) after Jan van der Straet (Johannes Stradanus) (1523-1605). Solomon Taking the Ark of the Covenant into the Temple (II Chronicles, 5, 4-6). The numerous musicians include the player of a small lute. Antwerp, Phiips Galle, n.d. no. 9. engraving. (Muziek & Grafiek. no. 18b, p. 69; facsimile: Cambridge 1943 [The Harrow Replicas, 6], as ca.1590)
[G van Valckenborch Pa] Valckenborch, Gilles van (ca.1570-1622), attr. The Entry of the Queen of Sheba into Jerusalem. Cologne WRM. A nocturnal carnival scene. Lutes all over the place. At least seven separate figures play or hold lutes. (Cologne WRM. Katalog der niederländischen Gemälde von 1500 bis 1800 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum ... Cologne 1967. p. 183)
Cana, Wedding at: [F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). The Wedding at Cana. Berlin art market (1929). Musicians play bass viol, viola da braccio, lute, cornett and trombone. (Basner sale, Lepke, Berlin, 19.XI.1929 [fair reproduction])
Herod, Feast of: [F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Salome with the Head of John the Baptist. Warsaw, Palace Museum of Warsaw-Wilanów. Includes a lute player and perhaps other musicians. (1969 catalog, vol. I, no. 388 [useless reproduction])
[F II Francken-P Vredeman de Vries] Francken, Frans II, and Paul Vredeman de Vries (1569--p.1630). Feast of Herod. Lembo, Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloss Brake. Four figures in a gallery. Two of them play lute and flute. (exh Antwerp KMSK 2002: Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden cat. 52, p. 232 [color reproduction])
Parables -- Lazarus and the Rich Man: [F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). The Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man. London art market (1932). Musicians play contrabass, viola da braccio and lute. (sale, Puttich & Simpson, London, 31.V.1932)
[Vrancx-Matham Pr] Jacob Matham (1571-1631) after Sebastian Vrancx (1573-1647). The Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man. engraving. Includes a woman holding a guitar and revellers playing lute and rommel pot. (Hollstein [Dutch] IX, p. 220; IB vol. 4, no. 225, p. 202 [ok reproduction]; exh Pittsburgh, Frick Art Museum, 1986: Gardens of Earthly Delight ... Ed. K. J. Hellerstedt. p. 49 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited]; Feest-bundel Dr. Abraham Bredius. Amsterdam 1915. Afb. 92; exh Antwerp KMSK 2002: Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden. p. 145 [not exhibited])
Parables -- Prodigal Son: [BI Antwerp 1601] Galle, Jan. Summae dementiae est peccatum committere/The Prodigal Son at the Whores, from Jan David, Veridicus Christianus. Antwerp, Plantin, 1601. engraving. One of the whores plays a small lute and a man may tune a lute. (exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica ... p. 85 [minuscule, useless reproduction, not exhibited])
[Barra Pr] Barra, Johan (fl. 1598-1627), attr. "Cum Venere et Baccho male sanus luxuriatur"/The Prodigal Son Feasting with Harlots. engraving. Figures eating and drinking under an arbor. A woman plays a lute and a man plays a flute. (R. Goldron. Music of the Renaissance. n.p. 1968. p.109; E. Hyams. A History of Gardens and Gardening. New York 1971. p. 107, as German, ca.1600; de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. p. 120 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited], as 1598; Early Music 3 [1975] 9, as 1560-70)
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). The Parable of the Prodigal Son. Amsterdam RM. As the Prodigal feasts with harlots, a man plays a lute. (All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam 1976. p. 232 [minuscule, useless reproduction]; Vis.Coll. 374.1.F857.25P)
[F II Francken Pa] _______. The Prodigal Son Squandering his Inheritance. Karlsruhe SK. Street musicians playing violin/viola da braccio and flute are joined at the table by a cavalier with a lute. (Bernt vol. I, pl. 388 [poor reproduction]; Härting Francken. cat. no. 161, p. 273 [ok reproduction], as ca.1630; Leppert Theme. no. 210, pl. VI [fair reproduction], as ca.1630; A. M. Renner. Die Kunstinventare des Markgrafen von Baden-Baden. Bühl-Baden 1941. Abb. 16 [fair reproduction]; exh Brussels MRBA, 1965: Le siècle de Rubens. no. 88, p. 86 [poor reproduction], as ca. 1630; exh Karlsruhe BLM,1955: Der Türkenlorus. no. 306, pl. 28; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Bulletin 61 [1974] 82)
[F II Francken Pa] _______. The Prodigal Son among the Whores (1633). Paris Louvre. Musicians play viola da braccio and pipe and drum (deep). A woman holds a lute as she is embraced. (Härting 1989. cat. 159, p. 272; E. Vetter. Der verlorene Sohn ... Düsseldorf 1955. pl. 27 [poor reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 374.1.25[P]a)
[Vinckboons Dr/Pr] Vinckboons, David (1576-1631/33). The Parable of the Prodigal Son. London BM 1848-11-25, 5. drawing. Musicians play violin and tenor viol. A man (embraced by a woman) plays a lute. (K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 91; de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. p. 120; J. R. Judson. Dirck Barendsz. Amsterdam 1970. fig. 156 [ok reproduction]; exh Philadelphia, etc., 1984: Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting. p. 350 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited]; Vis. Coll. 374.1d V741.25P2) Engraved (1608) by Cornelis Jansz Visscher (1586/87-1637 or 1652). (K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 92; Haak p. 90 [small reproduction]; de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. no. 19, p. 118 [ok reproduction]; G. S. Keyes. Esaias van de Velde. Doornspijk 1984. fig. 44 [small reproduction]; Muziek & Grafiek. no. 38, p. 90; exh Amsterdam RM, 1976: tot Lering en Vermaak. p. 273 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited])
[Vrancx Pa/Dr] Vrancx, Sebastian (1573-1647). Scene in the Gardens of an Estate/The Parable of the Prodigal Son. private collection. Includes musicians playing double bass, violin and lute. There are various unplayed woodwinds lying about. (Leppert Theme, no. 765, pl. VII; Early Music 7 [1979] 7) Drawing (Budapest SM) (Budapest SM Bulletin 18 [1961] 55 [fuzzy reproduction])
[Vrancx Pa] _______. The Parable of the Prodigal Son. Muiderslot (Rijksmuseum). Includes a figure playing a lute. (C. Bille. De Tempel der Kunst: of, het Kabinet van den Heer Braacamp. Amsterdam 1961. no. 67 [miserable reproduction])
Parables -- Wise and Foolish Virgins: [Claeissins Pa] Claeissins, Pieter II (op.1571-1623). The Wise and Foolish Virgins. Bruges, Klooster Zwart-Zusters Augustinessen. The Foolish Virgins play fiddle, dulcimer (?) and lute. The lute pose and costumes are very archaic. (Leppert no. 119, pl. VIII) There is another version by Claeissins or his workshop (Prague NG) (Die Weltkunst 53 [1983] 1499)
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). The Wise and Foolish Virgins. private collection. The Foolish Virgins play viola da braccio and harp. Unplayed: cittern, lute, perhaps more. (Härting Francken. cat. 142, color pl. 49, as Frans II Francken. Notes sale, Christie's, London, 19.IV.1985; sale Christie's, London, 29.IV.38, as Frans II; Foster sale, London, 29.IX.1928, as Frans I Francken, as Minerva and the Muses [!]; =? Solingen art market (1985) (Die Weltkunst 55 [1985] 2315 [small reproduction]) = Münster art market (1986) (exh Utrecht/Braunschweig 1986-87: Nieuw Licht op de Gouden Eeuw ... advt. [not exhibited])
[H II Francken] Francken, Hieronymus (Jerome) II (1578-1623). The Wise and Foolish Virgins. Warsaw MN. The Foolish Virgins play a little virginal, a tiny violin and a lute. (Härting Francken. p. 177; National Museum in Warsaw. Catalogue of Paintings, Foreign Schools, I. Warsaw 1969. no. 387) Another version (Berlin art market [1936]) (sale, Lepke, Berlin, 11-12.XII.1936, as Frans II Francken)
[Lisaert Pa] Lisaert, Pierre (17th century). The Wise and Foolish Virgins. Seville, Coll. Conde del Sacro Imperio. The Foolish Virgins play viola da braccio and harp. Unplayed: cittern, lute, perhaps more. A copy of the Francken, above (Härting no. 142). (exh Bruges, Musée Communal des Beaux-Arts, 1958: L'art flamande dans les collections espagnoles. no. 106, p. 133 [useless reproduction]; Early Music 7 [1979] 8 [ok reproduction])
Other: [H Wierix Pr] Wierix, Hieronymus (a.1553-1619). Five Depictions of the Child Jesus playing Musical Instruments. engraving. He plays violin, cello, cittern, harp and lute. There are also unplayed musical instruments in the interstices: mandora, flute, recorder, pommer, cornett, reverse-curve fingered horn and trumpet. (Muziek & Grafiek no. 17b, p. 67 [small reproduction])
St. Anthony: [P II Brueghel Pa] Brueghel, Pieter II (ca.1564-1638). The Temptation of St. Anthony. private collection. Includes a figure with a small lute. (Archivo español de arte 53 [1980] 301 [fair reproduction])
St. Cecilia: [A Collaert Pr] Collaert, Adriaen (ca.1560-1618). St. Cecilia. engraving. She plays a positive organ. There is a partly visible lute among a number of unplayed instruments. very unimp. (E. Closson et al. La musique en Belgique ... Brussels 1950. p. 348 [fair reproduction, organ at the left]; Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl. 64, p. 122 [organ at the right])
[Dyck Pa] Dyck, Anthonie van (1599-1641). St. Cecilia. location unknown. The saint plays a bass viol and there is an angel playing a lute (and perhaps another playing an organ). (E. Larsen. The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck. Freren 1988. cat. 1034, p. 406; Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl. 126; Jay sale, Helbing, Frankfurt am Main, 31.V-2.VI.1934 [ok reproduction]; Renner Sale, Wertheim, Berlin, 30.IV.1930 [fair reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine. Liège, Musée Vanderkelen-Mertens. St. Cecilia plays a positive/chamber organ (an angel pumps the bellows), angels sing and play viola da braccio/violin. Unplayed: viola (?), lute. (Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl. 61)
[Janssens Pa] Janssens, Abraham (1575-1632). St. Cecilia. location unknown. The saint is at the organ keyboard. A child angel plays a lute (poorly depicted, strings over the base of the soundboard, as of a cittern). unimp. (Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl. 79)
[Seghers Pa] Seghers, Gerard (1591-1651). St. Cecilia. Munich art market (1961). The saint sings. Angels sing and play lute and shawm. There is an unplayed small violin. (Nicolson Cravaggism. pl. 1438. Considers the copy in Vicenza "ruined or drastically repainted.") Engraved by Nicolaes Lauwers (1600-1651?) (Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl. 100a; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965 p. 147) Copy: Vicenza MC (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 145)
St. Mary Magdalene: [Pa location unknown] Flemish, ca. 1580. The Worldly Joys of Mary Magdalene. location unknown. Includes four singers with a lute player; and two dancing couples accompanied by players of flute, cornett and deep frame drum. (Early Music 8 [1980] 464 [two details])
Achilles: [F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1582-1642). Ulysses Recognizing Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes. Eger, Doboistván Muzeum. Includes a pochette, a viola (?), a lute and a pommer (with reed), among the displayed objects. (1960 catalog, unnumbered pl) Another version (Brussels art market [1985]) (Burlington 127 [1985] March ad p. xxvii [small reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] _______. Ulysses Recognizing Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes. location unknown. Includes (both partly visible) a lute and a viola (?) among the displayed objects. (Härting Francken. p. 319 [small reproduction], notes sale, Christie's, London, 9.III.1923) Another Version (Brussels art market 1982) (Härting Francken. p. 319 [small reproduction])
Apollo and Pan/Marsyas: [Stalbemt Pa] Stalbemt, Adriaen van (1580-1662). Apollo Playing before Marsyas. London art market (1951). Apollo plays a violin. There are a number of unplayed musical instrumets, including a chitarrone. (Osborne sale, Christie's, London, 1.VI.1951)
Muses (unidentified): [CI Antwerp 1582] Bruyn, Abraham de (1538/39-1587?). The Triumph-Wagon of Apollo and the Nine Muses on Mount Parnassus, from La Joyeuse et magnifique entrée de Monseigneur Francoy ... (Antwerp, 19 February 1582). engraving. One of the Muses plays a lute. (Bowles Musical Ensembles. fig. 43)
[CI Brussels 1594] Borcht, Pieter van der (1545-1608). Pageant-Wagon with the Nine Muses on Mount Parnassus, from the triumphal entry of Archduke Ernest, Brussels, 30 January 1594, from Jan Boghe (Boch), Descriptio publicae gratulationis ... Antwerp 1595. engraving. One of the Muses plays a lute. (Bowles Musical Ensembles. fig. 57 [reproduction not clear])
[Pa Brussels MIM] Flemish, early 17th century. Apollo and the Muses. Brussels MIM. painting on the lid of a harpsichord cum octave spinet by Johannes II Ruckers (Antwerp 1619). One of the Muses plays a lute. After a painting by Maarten de Vos (Brussels MRBA). (F. J. Hirth. Meisterwerke des Klavierbaus. Dietikon-Zürich 1981. p. 159 [the instrument, not helpful for the painting]; MGG VII, Taf. 45)
[Pa Amiens] Flemish, early 17th century. Minerva Visiting the Muses. Amiens, Musée d'art et d'histoire. painting on the lid of a harpsichord by Johannes II Ruckers (Antwerp 1612). One of the Muses plays a lute. (Hans Ruckers ... Peer 1998. p. 66 [the harpsichord, not helpful for the painting])
[Paris MdM Pa] Flemish, late-16th-early 17th century? Minerva Visiting the Muses. Paris, Musée de la Musique. painting on the lid of a harpsichord. One of the Muses plays a lute. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 146 [small reproduction], as private collection)
[Balen Pa] Balen, Hendrik van (1575-1632), attr. Feast of the Gods. Angers, MBA. Two of the accompanying Muses play lutes. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 153)
[Balen Pa] _______. Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne. Leipzig MbK. A Muse plays a lute, Apollo plays a lyre and a satyr plays panpipes. (exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 17 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited])
[Balen Pa] _______. Feast of the Gods. location unknown. Muses play viola da braccio, harp, lute and flute. An amoretto has a small wind instrument. Not played: violin, recorder, cornett. (sale, Feigla, Prague, 13-14.XII.1935 [poor reproduction]; sale, Lepke, Berlin, 30.IV.1929 [poor reproduction], as Balen and Jan Brueghel)
[Balen-Momper Pa] Balen, Hendrik van (1575-1632) and Josse II de Momper (1564-1635). Minerva Visiting the Muses. Antwerp KMSK cat. 957. One of the Muses has a lute. (The Royal Museums of Antwerp. Ed. E. Maréchal and L. De Jong. Brussels 1990. p. 56 [ok color reproduction]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek [1961] 142); Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek [1966] 134) Replica (private collection) (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek [1966] 135) Copy by Balthasar Beschey (1708-1776) (private collection) (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek [1966] 138)
[J I Breughel Pa] Breughel, Jan I (1568-1625). The Feast of the Gods. Paris Louvre. Accompanied by the Muses, one of whom plays a lute (and sings?). (Leppert Theme. no. 96, pl. XX)
[Clerck Pa] Clerck, Hendrik de (1570-1629). Minerva and the Muses. Châlon-sur-Sâone, Musée Denon. One of the Muses has a lute. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1961, p. 144; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 142 [small reproduction])
[Clerck Dr] _______. Apollo and the Muses. Paris Louvre CdD. drawing. One of the Muses plays a lute. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 152, as study for a painting also in the Louvre.)
[Clerck Pa] _______. Minerva and the Muses. Cologne art market (1929). One of the Muses has a lute. (Loewe sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 5-6.XI.1929 [poor reproduction])
[Clerck Pa] _______. Minerva and the Muses. private collection. One of the Muses has a lute. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 142 [poor reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Apollo and the Muses. Tournai MBA. One of the Muses plays a lute. There is also a lute among the unplayed musical instruments. (Leppert Theme. pl. XXII [ok reproduction])
[F II Francken] _______. Allegory on the Various Ways to become Immortal. (Berlin art market (1912). Muses play several musical instruments, including a lute. Apollo holds a lyre. Two angels (Fames) play straight trumpets. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 381, p. 353. Notes sale, Lepke, Berlin, 7.V.1912, no. 68, with reproduction)
[F II Francken] _______, attr. Parnassus. private collection. One of the Muses has a lute and there is a lute among the unplayed musical instruments. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 143)
[Govaerts-F II Francken Pa] Govaerts, Abraham (1589-1626) and Frans II Francken (1581-1642). Apollo and the Muses. The Hague art market (1970). Includes a lute on the ground. (Apollo 91 [1970] June Supp. S 10 [useless reproduction])
[Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Allegory of Poetry/Homage to the Poet. Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, KsK. drawing. Includes a Muse holding a lute (scroll head). unimp. (d'Hulst 1974. no. A367, pl. 385, as ca.1660 [II, 434]; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 131 [March 1998] La chronique des arts[no. 1550], 29 [small reproduction]; Simiolus 18/1-2 [1988] unnumbered advt)
[D I Teniers Pa] Teniers, David I (1582-1649), attr. Minerva Visiting the Muses. Vienna art market (1979). One of the Muses plays a lute. (Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, Winter exhibition, 1979/80; Die Weltkunst 49 [1979] 2857 [fine color reproduction]) Another version (private collection) (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 144 [small reproduction], as Flemish, 17th century)
[Tilens Pa] Tilens, Johannes (Jan) (1589-1630). Apollo and the Muses. private collection. Apollo plays a violin. One of the Muses plays a lute. (Leppert Theme. no. 703, pl. XXI [cropped]; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 145 [fair reproduction])
Venus: [J I Collaert Pr] Collaert, Johannes I (1566-1628)?. Venus and Amor. engraving. Includes several unplayed musical instruments: viola da braccio (three strings), cittern, lute, flute (? partly visible) and cornett. When it says, as here, "Ioan Collaert excudit," it is likely a reprint of an old plate, probably after 1618 by Johannes II (1591-1627). (Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 64, p. 122, as Johannes II)
Other: [F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Nymphs and Dancing Putti/Preparations for a Muse Concert. Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina. Includes a flying putto bringing in a lute. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 155 [fair reproduction])
[G van Valckenborch Pa] Valckenborch, Gilles van (ca.1570-1622). The Trojan Horse (1598). New York art market (1981). Includes a banquet on a terrace with figures playing harp and lute. There is also a pile of musical instruments, including a lute. (sale, Christie's, New York, 12.VI.81; Die Weltkunst 51 [1981] 1547 [poor reproduction])
[BI Antwerp 1591] Nicolai, Arnaud (doc.1550-1596). Allegorical figures before the Palace of Love, from Hernando de Acuña, El Cavallero determinado. Antwerp, Jan Steelsius, 1553. woodcut. Three couples in the Palace of Love include two ladies playing (separately) harp and lute. Above them men play two flutes (right and left handed), two shawms (?), trombone and perhaps one or two more instruments. (A. J. J. Delen. Oude Vlaamsche Graphiek. Antwerp 1943. unnumbered page. On the next page he reproduces an engraved version by Pieter van der Borcht, published in Antwerp, Plantijnsche drukkerij, 1591, where the wind ensemble seems to include a flute [very long], another very long flute or perhaps a bassoon of some sort, and three or four shawms.)
[F II Francken-Govaerts Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1641) and Abraham Govaerts (1589-1626). Anthony Welcoming the Arrival of Cleopatra. Paris art market (1989). Musicians on shipboard (tiny details) play harp and lute (and perhaps more). (Härting Francken. cat. no. 347, color pl. 32 [fine color reproduction], notes sale, Christie's, London, 18.IV.1980, no. 61)
[Vrancx-Matham Pr] Jacob Matham (1571-1631) after Sebastian Vrancx (1573-1647). "Antony et Cleopatria e Congressus ad fiumen Cyclnum." engraving. Musicians in the stern of a ship play viola da braccio, harp, lute and a sort of cornu (?). (IB vol. 4, no. 226, p. 203)
Life and Death: See also Allegory, Other.
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1582-1642). Death and the Merchant. private collection. A very solicitous Death plays a lute. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 404, p. 359)
Love and Sex: See also Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures; Allegory, Senses (Hearing); Allegory, Other; Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Garden Parties; Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor, Banquets.
[Ta art market] Flemish (Brussels), ca.1580. Lovers in a Wooded Landscape. London art market (1983). tapestry. Lovers at a picnic. A woman plays a lute as a man embraces her. In the two lower corners of the border women play lutes. unimp, except that there are lots of lutes. (Connoisseur 207 [1981] May ad p. iv [at the back] [poor reproduction]; Die Weltkunst 52 [1982] 3048 [poor reproduction]; Die Weltkunst 53 [1983] 1189 [poor reproduction])
[Caulery Pa] Caulery, Louis de (ca.1580-1621). Allegorical Garden Party/The Garden of Love. Amsterdam RM. Musicians play two tiny viole da braccio, a double bass, a lute and a flute. (Haak p. 86; Amsterdam Rijksmuseum. All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Amsterdam 1976. p. 165 [minuscule reproduction] as Venus, Bacchus and Ceres with Mortals in a Garden of Love; exh Antwerp KMSK 2002: Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden. cat. 111, p. 276 [color reproduction], as early 17th century; Vis. Coll. 374.1.C311.91[a])
[Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Amor docet musicam (Love Teaches Music). private collection. drawing. A man plays a bass viol (?) and a woman plays a lute. A border trophy includes a lute. (d'Hulst 1974. cat. A195, pl. 210; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1969, p. 243)
[Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). The Garden of Love. Madrid Prado. Includes a man playing a lute. (E. L. Goodman. "Rubens' Conversatie à la mode and the Tradition of the Love Garden." Diss. Ohio State University 1978; H. W. Janson. History of Art. New York 1962. color pl. 50; Newsweek. Great Museums of the World. Prado. New York 1968. pp. 142-43 [splendid double-page color spread]; exh Boston MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. Ed. P. C. Sutton. New York 1993. no. 31, p. 305 [ok color reproduction]; Art Bulletin 64 [1982] 248; Burlington 105 [1963] 430; Vis. Coll. 374.1.R823.91[t]) Painting after (Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister) (Burlington 105 [1963] 429)
[Rubens Pa] ________. The Garden of Love. Waddesdon Manor, N. T. A man plays a lute. In the left foreground, beside an embracing couple, there is a violin lying against a lute. (W. Burchard. "The 'Garden of Love' by Rubens." Burlington 105 [1963] 428-432; E. Waterhouse. [Catalogue of the James A. de Rothschild Collection of] Paintings. London 1967. [The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, vol. 1] no. 87; Vis. Coll. 374.1.R823.91[t]VW) Copy (Dresden Gemäldegalerie) (Burlington 105 [1963] 429)
[Rubens Dr/Rubens-Jegher Pr] _______. The Garden of Love. New York Metropolitan. drawing (in two parts). A woman sings (?) and a man plays a lute. A version of the painting in Madrid (where the woman does not seem to sing). The drawing, which is preparatory for the woodcut, depicts the figures in the lower portion of the painting. (J. Bean. 100 European Drawings [New York Metropolitan]. New York 1964. pl. 81 [splendid reproduction], as 1630-32; Burlington 107 [1965] 556) Woodcut by Christoffel Jegher (1596-1652/53) (Burlington 105 [1963] 433; Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 37 [1974] 24-25 [proof])
Months (February): [Bril-Ae II Sadeler] Aegidius (Edigius) II Sadeler (1568-1629) after Paul Bril (1554-1626). January/February, from a Twelve Months series (1615). engraving. A view of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome. Includes two separate revellers/comedians playing lutes. (IB vol. 72/1, no. 7201.126, p. 203 [fair reproduction]; Hollstein [Dutch] XXII, no. 123, p. 32 [small reproduction]; G. Ciucci. La Piazza del Popolo. Rome 1974. p. 50 [poor reproduction]; J. M. Wiesel. Rom in zeitgenössischen Darstellungen ... Herrenalb 1962. fig. 37)
[Stephani-Ae II Sadeler Pr] Aegidius (Edigius) II Sadeler (1568-1629) after Peter Stephani (Stevens) (ca.1567-p.1624 [or p.1641]). February/Pisces from a Twelve Months series. engraving. Includes three separate figures (one a dancing comedian) playing lutes. (IB vol. 72/1, no. 7201.134, p. 212 [ok reproduction])
[Wildens-Matham Pr] Jacob Matham (1571-1631) after Jan Wildens (1586-1658). February, from a Twelve Months series. engraving. Includes a comedian playing a lute. (IB vol. 4, no. 228, p. 205)
Months (May): [Bril-Ae II Sadeler Pr] Aegidius (Edigius) II Sadeler (1568-1629) after Paul Bril (1554-1626). May/June, from a Twelve Months series (1615). engraving. A couple dances, accompanied by figures playing a lute and a cittern (?). In a boat a woman sings and a man plays a lute. (Hollstein [Dutch] XXII, no. 125, p. 33; IB vol. 72/1, no. 7201.128, p. 205 [fair reproduction]; Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 148 [ok reproduction]; MgB IV/4, p. 160 [detail]. Notes that the dancers are dancing a galliard.) There is a related drawing (Paris Louvre CdD) with a lute player in a boat. (exh [Florence] 1972-73: Il paesaggio nel disegno del cinquecento europeo. no. 138, p. 194 [ok reproduction]) Painting based on this, attr. Abel Grimmer (London art market [1955]) (Howard sale, Christie's, London, 25.XI.1955; Burlington 97 [1955], November ad p. i [poor reproduction]; Connoisseur 137 [1956] 56 [poor reproduction]) Painting based on this, attr. Sebastian Vrancx (Zürich art market [1984]) Two dancing couples are accompanied by figures playing a violin and a cello. (Die Weltkunst 54 [1984] 2713)
[Momper Dr/Pr] Momper, Josse de (1564-1635). May/Gemini, from a Twelve Months series. Amsterdam RM, Rijksprentenkabinet. drawing. Includes a woman playing a lute. (Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 146 [ok reproduction]). Engraved by Adriaen Collaert (ca.1560-1618). (Hollstein [Dutch] IV, no. 563, p. 207 [poor reproduction]) Etched by Jacques Callot (1592-1635). (J. Lieure. Jacques Callot. IIème partie. Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé. Paris 1924. no. 6)
[Stephani-Ae II Sadeler Pr] Aegidius (Edigius) II Sadeler (1568-1629) after Pieter Stephani (Stevens) (ca.1567-p.1624 [or p.1641]). May/Gemini, from a Twelve Months series. engraving. Three men, a youth, and perhaps a boy sing, a woman plays a harp and a man plays a lute. There is a cornett on the table and a flute case on the ground. (IB vol. 72/1, no. 7201.137, p. 217 [fair reproduction]; Hirth no. 1505; Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 147) Mirimonde notes another engraving by Thomas de Leu (1560-1612), "d'un métier plus lourd."
Music/Poetry/Liberal Arts: [Ta Milan Sforzesco] Flemish (Bruges, cartoon by Cornelis Schut [1597-1655]). 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)
[Duchemin Pr] Duchemin, Isaac (op. ca.1590). "Tabula asinaris: Inscitiae saeculi, vivum exemplum (1582). engraving. Donkeys are trampling artifacts representing the seven Liberal Arts, including a lute, a case of flutes and a huge pommer. (exh Rotterdam BvB, 1974: Het dier in de prentkunst XVe-XVIIe eeuw. no. 21) Cf. Cornelis Cort (?) -- parody after Francesco Primaticcio. tondo engraving. (Härting Francken. p. 88)
[Jordaens Pa] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Allegory of Poetry. Dortmund, Museum für Kunst und Kunstgeschichte. Unplayed: viola da braccio, lute, lyre and cornett. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek, p. 138; Leppert Theme. no. 311 [not illus.])
[Jordaens Dr] _______. Allegory of Poetry. private collection. Two satyrs play woodwind instruments. On the ground: violin, lute, lyre, shawm. (d'Hulst 1974. cat. A366. pl. 384, as Homage to the Poet; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967, p. 136)
[Jordaens Dr] _______. "Amor musicum." London art market (1936). drawing. A putto sings, a man plucks a bass viol while singing and a woman plays a lute. There are several unplayed musical instruments, including a lute. (Henry Oppenheimer sale, Old Master Drawings, Christie's, London, 10, 13-14.VII.1936, no. 257, pl. 63)
[Schut Pr] Schut, Cornelis (1597-1655), after. "Septem artes liberales." etching. Music is represented by figures singing (?), and playing a small organ (the principal personification) and flute. There is an unplayed lute. (Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 36; MGG I, Taf. XXX [ok reproduction])
[C de Vos Pa] Vos, Cornelis de (1584?-1651), attr. Mercury Encouraging the Liberal Arts after War. location unknown. The personification of Music holds a lute. Unplayed: cello (?) (large), violin/viola, pommer. (Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 35)
Planets (Mercury): [Pa Amsterdam RM] Flemish, first half, 17th century. The Children of the Planet Mercury. Amsterdam RM. With many unplayed musical instruments, including a lute. (Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 21)
[Ta Munich BNM] Flemish (Brussels), ca. 1570. The Children of Mercury. Munich BNM. tapestry. A woman plays a positive/chamber organ. Includes an unplayed lute. (Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 19)
Sacred/Secular: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Angels.
Seasons (Spring): [Pa Venice Accademia] Flemish, 17th century, after a print by Jan van de Velde (ca.1593-p.1641). Spring, from a Four Seasons series. Venice Accademia. Includes a lute player. (1970 catalog vol. III, 17th-19th century. cat. and fig. 392)
[Pa Vienna KH] Flemish, ca. 1600. Amor/Ver, from a series Amor/Spring, Labor/Summer, Honor/Autumn, Dolor/Winter. Vienna KH. Amor plays a lute. Among the objects about him there are a small viol (4 strings), a cornett or a curved horn, a cittern, an open lute case and a case for flutes. In the background two men (one a sort of Idle Man), separately, play lutes. Based on an engraved series by Raphael Sadeler (b.1555) after Maarten de Vos (1531/2-1603). (Musica calendar, 1979: 11-24 March [fine color reproduction]; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 69 [1967] 323)
[Vinckboons-Hondius Pr] Hendrik II Hondius (1597-p.1644) after David Vinckboons (1576-1631/33). "Ver," from a Four Seasons series. etching and engraving. Includes a man (front and center) holding a lute. (Hollstein [Dutch] IX, no. 21, p. 92; de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. p. 144 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited], as 1617; exh Pittsburgh, Frick Art Museum, 1986: Gardens of Earthly Delight ... Ed. K. J. Hellerstedt. no. 4, p. 14 [ok reproduction]. Notes that another print in the series is dated 1618)
[Vrancx Dr/Pr] Vrancx, Sebastian (1573-1647). Spring. Hamburg KH. drawing. Figures on the grounds of an estate. A man plays a lute. (Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen 4 [1959] 164 [ok reproduction]) Engraved by Matthaeus I Merian (1593-1650) (Hollstein [German] XXVI, no. 530, p. 208 [ok reproduction]; D. Burrckhardt-Werthemann. Matthäus Merians Jugendjähre1593-1625. n.p, n.d. p. 38, as 1616-17. This is not the same as the engraving in Hollstein) Painting (after one of the engravings?) (London art market [1968]) (Connoisseur 169 [1968] 238 [small reproduction]).
Seasons (Summer): [Vinckboons-Gerritsz Pr] Hessel Gerritsz (1580/81-1632) after David Vinckboons (1576-1631/33). Aestas/View of Loenersloot (Loenerslot), from a Four Seasons series. etching. Includes a man walking beside a woman, playing a lute. In the background there is a bell in a belfry. (Hollstein [Dutch] VII, p. 107 [poor reproduction]; IB vol. 53 Commentary, no. 5305.002, p. 88 [fair reproduction]; Hirth no. 1539 [ok reproduction])
[Vinckboons-Matham Pr] Jacob Matham (1571-1631) after David Vinckboons. Aestas, from a Four Seasons series. engraving. Among several musical references, there is an Idle Man holding a lute. (G. S. Keyes. Esaias van de Velde. Dornspijk 1984. fig. 46 [small, all but useless reproduction])
Senses (Hearing): See also Portraits, Genre Portraits and Conversation Pieces.
[Pa Rome Museo degli Strumenti Musicali] Flemish, first half, 17th century. Allegory of the Five Senses. Rome, Museo degli Strumenti Musicali. Hearing is represented by a man playing an arch-lute (rather like a small chitarrone). (exh Rome, 2000-01: Colori della Musica; Dipinti, strumenti e concerti tra Cinquecento e Seicento. no. 37, p. 191 [ok color reproduction], as possibly by Daniel Seghers [1591-1651] or Theodoor Rombouts; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 153 [fair reproduction], as "G. Seghers?")
[J I Breughel Pa] Breughel, Jan I (1568-1625). Hearing, from a Five Senses series. Madrid, Prado. Venus (the personification, with Amor) plays a lute. Among the many unplayed musical instruments there is a small, single-course (?) (descant?) lute. In the background, around a table, a woman and two children sing and men play bass viol, lute, flute and recorder (?). There are a lute and a recorder (?) on the table. (B. S. Myers, ed. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art. New York 1969. vol. I, p. 405 [small color reproduction]; Bernt pl. 203 [tiny reproduction]; P. Fischer. Music in Paintings of the Low Countries in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Amsterdam 1975. p. 73 [small reproduction]; Kinsky p. 141 [full page, not much help]; van Dyck - Koopman no. 56 [poor reproduction]; exh Cremona, 1996-97: Immagini del sentire. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. n. p. 1996. p. 17 [small color reproduction, not exhibited]; exh The Hague, 1994: Music & Painting in the Golden Age. p. 201 [not exhibited]. Text [p. 198] says that Venus and Amor were painted by Rubens; Musica calendar, 1967: 29 October - 11 November [ok reproduction]; Musica calendar, 1984: 14-17 October [ok color reproduction]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1966, pp. 150 [detail], 158 [small reproduction]; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 68 [1966] 272 [poor reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 374.1.B831.4S1) There is a very ugly engraving by A. J. von Prenner -- from Joseph von Prenner, Theatrum artis pictoriae (1735). (MgBIV/3, p. 44; Naylor Trumpet and Trombone. no. 213; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1966, pp. 159 [small reproduction], 148 [detail of Venus and Amor]) Copy: private collection, Madrid. (Vis. Coll. 374.1.B831.4S[b] [ poor copy]) Replica: ex coll Stuijk, Antwerp, sold Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 7.XII.1960. (A. P. de Mirimonde. Astrologie et musique. Geneva 1977. pl. 102; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1966, p. 158)
[J I Breughel Pa] _______. Alleory of Hearing, Touch and Taste. Madrid Prado. Includes a woman (the personification of Hearing) playing a lute (unusual head, sort of like a theorbo) and two children singing. There are two partly visible lutes among the many unplayed musical instruments. On the wall there is a painting of Minerva and the Muses. One of the Muses has a lute. (P. Fischer. Music in Paintings of the Low Countries in the 16th and 17th Centuries. p. 75 [small reproduction]; van Dijck-Koopman no. 57, as 1617-18, with Rubens, Frans Snyders, etc; Härting Francken. cat. 395, p. 115 [fair reproduction], as by Frans II Francken, Jan I Breughel, Rubens, Frans Snyders, etc.; exh Cremona, 1996-97: Immagini del sentire. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. n. p. 1996. p. 40 [color reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 58 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited], as ca.1617-18, as by Jan I Breughel, and with parts attributed to Rubens and Frans Snyders; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1966, pp. 137 [poor detail of the painting of Minerva and the Muses], 142 [poor reproduction]; 145 [fair detail, with the lute player])
[J I Breughel-Avont Pa] _______, and Pieter van Avont (1600-1652). Hearing. Paris art market (1955). Includes a chitarrone among the many unplayed musical instruments. In a back room women sing and play harp, lute, flute and tambourine. (sale, Charpentier, 2.XII.1955)
[J I Breughel-F II Francken Pa] _______, and Frans II Francken (1582-1642). Allegory of the Five Senses. London art market (1959). Includes a draped female figure playing a lute. (Connoisseur 143 [1959] June ad p. [xxiv])
[Caulery Pa] Caulery, Louis de (op.1593-m.1621/22). Allegory of the Five Senses. Cambrai Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (deposit from the Louvre). A banquet with lovers, accompanied by figures playing violin and lute. (Warsaw MN Bulletin 8 [1967] 25)
[Finson Pa] Finson (Finsonius), Lodewijck (Ludovicus) (ca.1580-1617). Merry Company/The Five Senses. Braunschweig HAUM, inv. no. 37. Includes women playing chitarrone and tambourine (J/BB). (exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica... p. 107 [not exhibited]; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica p. 101 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Cremona 1996-97: Immagine del sentire ... Ed. S. Ferino-Pagden. p. 41 [rather small color reproduction, not exhibited]; H. Kauffmann. "Die Fünfsinne in der niederländischen Malerei des 17.Jahrhunderts." In: H. Tintelnot, ed. Kunstgeschichtliche Studien [FS Dagobert Frey]. Breslau 1943. pp. 133-157. This repr. Abb. 29; Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 937 [fair reproduction]; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 405 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Braunschweig HAUM, 1978: Die Sprache der Bilder. no. 10, p. 66, dates as shortly after 1600; exh Utrecht, Braunschweig 1986-87: Nieuw licht op de Gouden Eeuw: Hendrick ter Brugghen en tijdgenoten. Ed. A. Blankert and L. J. Slatkes. no. 56, p. 262 [fine reproduction]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek [1965] 122)
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1582-1642). Banquet in a Picture Gallery/Allegory of the Five Senses. Munich AP. A romanticized interpretation of the collection of Nicolae s Rockox of Antwerp. Hearing is represented by a well-dressed man playing a lute. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 462, color pl. 19, as ca.1630-35; S. Speth-Holterhoff. Les peintres flamands de cabinets d'amateurs au XVIIe siècle. Brussels 1957. fig. 24 [fair reproduction]; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 194 [color reproduction, not exhibited], as the interior of the house of Burgomaster Nicolaes Rockox)
[F II Francken-A Govaerts Pa] Francken, Frans II (1582-1642) and Abraham Govaerts (1589-1626). The Five Senses. Paris Louvre. Five female figures around a table in a landscape. The female personification of Hearing plays a lute. There is a thick music book open on a table. (Härting Francken. cat. 393, p. 356, as ca.1620) Härting notes an identical composition in Toulouse, as Ambrosius II Francken. (Härting Francken. cat. B303)
[F II Francken-H II van Steenwijck Pa] Francken, Frans II (1582-1642) and Hendrick II van Steenwijck (ca.1580-ca.1649), attr. Interior with an Allegory of the Five Senses. Paris art market (1989, as Frans II Francken and Dirk van Delen). Hearing is personified by a woman playing a lute. (Härting Francken. cat. 396, p. 164 [small, unhelpful reproduction])
[Govaerts Pa] Govaerts, Abraham (1589-1626). Allegory of the Five Senses (1624). Düsseldorf Kunstmuseum. Five women in a landscape. One plays a lute (with music). A smaller figure sings beside her. (H. Peters. Meisterwerke der Düsseldorfer Galerie. Honnef/Rhein 1955. no. 20, pl. 9; =? sale, Fievez, Brussels, 16.VI.31 [tiny reproduction])
[Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Figures Making Music in a Gallery. location unknown. drawing. Women sing (two) and play a lute (left-handed). Men play violin (right-handed) and cornett. There are two parrots (Touch), monkey (Taste) and a dog (Smell), which would indicate that the musicians represent Hearing. (d'Hulst 1974. no. A199, fig. 214, as ca.1645; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek1969. p. 240)
[Noort-Collaert Pr] Adriaen Collaert (ca.1560-1618) after Adam van Noort (1561-1641). Man Receiving Gifts from the Five Senses. engraving. The personification of Hearing plays a lute (back view, as is customary for nude lute players). (H. Kauffmann. "Die Fünfsinne in der niederländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts." In: H. Tintelnot, ed. Kunstgeschichtliche Studien [FS Dagobert Frey]. Breslau 1943. Abb. 28, as ca.1590; exh Amsterdam RM, 1976: tot Lering en Vermaak. p. 114 [not exhibited]; exh Cremona, 1996-97: Immagini del sentire. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. n. p. 1996. no. XI.2, p. 267 [fine reproduction]; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 403 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited], as ca.1590; Cologne, Kunstgewerbe Museum. Catalog no. 1: Glas. Cologne 1973. pl. 13) There is an etched glass beaker (Riesengebirge, late 17th century) based on this in Cologne, Kunstgewerbe Museum. (Catalog no. 1: Glas. Cologne 1973. pl. 10, 12 [wax impression]) There was an engraved glass crystal footed beaker by Rudolf I Schwanberger based on this on the Munich art market, 1979 (Die Weltkunst 49 [1979] 2559). Cf. Jan (Johann) Theodor de Bry (1561-1623), after Maarten de Vos (1532-1603), attr. Man Receiving Gifts from the Five Senses. engraved print from the engraved design on a tazza bowl (London V & A). (Burlington 95 [1953] 125 [fair reproduction])
[Rombouts Pa] Rombouts, Theodoor (1579-1637). The Five Senses. Ghent MBA. The personification of Hearing plays a chitarrone. Unplayed: two violins, lute, curtal (?), pommer, and five recorders in a case (only the distal ends visible). (Kinsky p. 131 [poor reproduction]; Leppert Theme. no. 468, pl. XXIII; Nicolson Caravagism. pll. 1022 [poor reproduction], 1023 [large but rather fuzzy detail including all of the musical instruments]; exh Cremona, 1996-97: Immagini del sentire. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. n. p. 1996. p. 43 [small color reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 405 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited]; The New Grove, vol. 4, p. 287 [large, unclear detail]; Early Music 3 [1975] 354 [detail of the lute player])
[Rombouts Pa] _______, or Gerard Seghers (1591-1651), attr. Allegory of the Five Senses. private collection. Figures around a table include a woman singing and a man playing an arch lute. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 155, as by "G. Seghers ou Th. Rombouts?")
[Vinckboons Dr] Vinckboons, David (1576-1631/33). Allegory of the Five Senses. Berlin SMPK KsK. drawing. Hearing is represented by a woman tuning a lute and a man playing an orpharion. (H. Kauffmann. "Die Fünfsinne in der niederländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts," In: H. Tintelnot, ed. Kunstgeschichtliche Studien[FS Dagobert Frey]. Breslau 1943. Abb. 30)
[Wael-Voet Pr] Alexander I Voet (1613-1690) after Cornelis de Wael (1592-1662). Allegory of Hearing. engraving. Figures sing and play double bass, viola da braccio, chitarrone, lute and cornett. There is a lute case on the wall. (Muziek & Grafiek. no. 13, p. 63 [small reproduction]; MGG I, Taf. XXXI/1 [fine reproduction])
Times of Day (Night): [Verhaecht-Panderen Pr] Egbert van Panderen (1581-ca.1637) after Tobias Verhaecht (1561-1631). "Nox"/Night, from a Times of Day series. pub. Theodoor Galle. engraving. A comedian plays a lute with a band of comedians/revellers by torchlight. There is another lute player among a group of elegant revellers. Musicians serenade outside a house, playing double bass, harp and lute. (Hollstein [Dutch] XV, no. 53, p. 101 [small reproduction]; S. Shesgreen. Hogarth and the Times-of-the-Day Tradition. Ithaca NY 1983. p. 48 [ok reproduction], as after 1590. With an English translation of the text.)
Vanitas: [Mol Pa] Mol, Pieter van (1599-1650). Allegory of Transience. private collection. The personification has her foot on a partly visible lute. There is also a music book. (exh The Hague, 1994: Music & Painting in the Golden Age. no. 27, p. 239 [fine color reproduction], as ca.1620)
[W van Nieulandt Pa] Nieulandt, Willem van (1584-1635). Allegory (1610). Zollikon art market (1977). Includes two lutes of unequal size and a huge theorbo in a pile of artifacts in the foreground. (Die Weltkunst 47 [1977] 1010 [minuscule reproduction], 1262 [minuscule reproduction])
[C de Vos Pa] Vos, Cornelis de (1584-1651). Vanitas Allegory. Braunschweig HAUM. Includes (unplayed) lute, pommer (bell only visible), cornett and a music book. (exh Braunschweig HAUM, 1978: Die Sprache der Bilder ... no. 41, pp. 17 [ok color reproduction], 174; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 92 [1978] front cover [detail, including the lute], p. 125)
Vice/Virtue: [BI Antwerp 1612] Veen, Otto van (1556-1629). "Voluptatum Usurae, Morbi et Miserliae," from Otto van Veen, Horatii Flacci Emblemata. Antwerp, Philipp Lisaert 1612. pp. 38-39. engraving. In a brothel two masked dancers (comedians) dance, accompanied by a comedian playing a lute. (facsimile as Horatii Emblemata. New York 1979; exh Philadelphia, etc., 1984: Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting. p. 177 [minuscule reproduction]. Notes that the masked dancers symbolize "hidden lust and carnal desire.")
[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])
War and Peace: [Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). The Horrors of War. Florence Pitti. Includes a lute being overrun. (Vis. Coll. 374.1.R823.4W) Another version (London NG) (Connoisseur 120 [1947] 122)
Other: [Bril Pa] Bril, Paul (1554-1626). Allegory. private collection. Includes a lute. (exh Springfield IL, Illinois State Museum, 1956: The Frank W. Chesrow Collection ... p. 26 [miserable reproduction]; exh Carbondale IL, University Galleries, 1965: Masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque Art from the Collection of Colonel Frank W. Chesrow. p. 11 [poor reproduction]; exh Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center, 1970: The Frank W. Chesrow Collection ... p. 27 [poor reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Allegory of Pictura/Painting (1636). Berlin SMPK. Includes a well-dressed man playing a lute. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 370, p. 347 [ok reproduction]; exh Mainz, Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, 1968: Werke alter Meister aus Privatbesitz, no. 33 [color reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Allegory of Fortune/Opportunity (1627). Cracow, Wawel State Collection. Among the objects there are a pochette/viola da braccio, lute and pommer. There is also Fame with a straight trumpet. (HärtingFrancken. cat. no. 365 [not illustrated]; Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 57; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 67 [1966] 131. Notes a similar painting among the pictures in Jerome II Francken's The Picture Shop of Jan Snellinck [1621]. Brussels MRBA [pp. 130, 141 [detail].; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 68 [1966] 319; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967, p. 118; Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte52 [1989] 253)
[F II Francken Pa] _______. Allegory of Fortune/Opportunity. Périgueux, Musée du Perigord. A woman plays a portable organ, a child sings, and men play violin/viola and lute. Also includes Fame with a straight trumpet. (MirimondeAstrologie. pl. 58; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 67 [1966] 136)
[F II Francken Pa] _______. Allegory of Fortune/Opportunity. private collection. A child sings, and men play positive organ, violin and lute. It also includes Fame with a straight trumpet. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 366, p. 346 [small reproduction]; Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 56; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1967, p. 121 [small reproduction]; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 73 [1969] 353)
[Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Homage to the Poet. private collection. drawing. Two satyrs play tapered woodwind instruments. There are also unplayed instruments: violin, lute, lyre and shawm. unimp. (d'Hulst 1974. cat. A366, pl. 384, as ca.1660 [II, p. 433])
[Rombouts Pa] Rombouts, Theodoor (1597-1637). Allegorical Group. Munich art market (1984). Includes a man tuning a lute. A woman at the right raises a tazza and has an armload of fruit. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 138; Die Weltkunst 54 [1984] 2212 [color reproduction])
[Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). The Education of Marie de' Medici. Paris Louvre. Apollo plays a bass viol. There is an unplayed theorbo (botch) on the ground. (Mirimonde Iconographie musicale. vol. I, no. 11. Text, pp.25-26, notes that the area of the lute was damaged and has been restored; Pincherle p. 69 [fine color reproduction]; Art History 16 [1993] 451 [poor reproduction]; Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Künste 30 [1979] 109; Vis. Coll. 374.1.R823.4Ma3) Study (oil sketch) in Munich AP, where the theorbo is a regular lute. (Held cat. no. 59, pl. 60; 1932 catalog, no. 92; Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Künste 30 [1979] p. not recorded)
[Seghers Pa] Seghers, Gerard (1591-1651). Unknown Subject. location unknown. A woman sings, a man holds up a sheet of music, men hold a viol and play a lute. The fifth figure might sing. (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 1437, as St. Cecilia [unlikely])
[Stalbemt P] Stalbemt, Adriaen van (1580-1662). The Protectors of the Young Artist. Budapest SM. Includes a lute on the ground beside him. (Oud-Holland 95 [1981] 7)
[Vinckboons-Bolswert Pr] Boëtius Adams a Bolswert (ca.1580-1634) after David Vinckboons (1576-1631/33). Death and Cupid with Each Other's Arrows. engraving. Includes a lute on the ground beside a gentleman who seems to have been mortally wounded by Cupid's arrow. (Hollstein [Dutch] III, no. 318, p. 66 [small reproduction], as An Old Man Jesting with a Maid, a monkey taking money out of his pocket; de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. p. 28 [small reproduction]) French version (engraving), pub. Pierre Landry (de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. p. 28 [small reproduction]) Painting (after?) (Hamburg art market [1984]) (Die Weltkunst 54 [1984] 2501 [ok color reproduction])
[Pa Brussels MRBA] Flemish, 17th century. Conversation Piece. Brussels MRBA. A small daughter plays a harpsichord (?), the father plays a lute, and a child has a toy drum. (Brussels MRBA Bulletin 16 [1967] 184; Vis. Coll. 374.1.F6217.70[b])
[Pa Dresden Alte Meister] Flemish, early 17th century. A Man Playing a Lute. Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. Genre portrait. It's a large lute. (Nicolson Caravaggism pl. 930 [poor reproduction], as "Caravaggesque Unknown, South Netherlands ... [near Finson, but better]"; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 119, as Lodewijck Finson. Notes previous attribution to Jan Lys [Liss])
[Dyck Pa] Dyck, Anthonie van (1599-1641). Portrait of a Man Holding a Chitarrone. Madrid Prado. The instrument is partly visible. (Kinsky p. 136 [poor reproduction]; exh The Hague 1994: Music and Painting in the Golden Age. p. 193 [not exhibited])
[Dyck Pa] _______. Portrait of Lady Isabella Rich. location unknown. She carries a theorbo-lute. (E. Larsen. The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck. Freren 1988. cat. 966, p. 380. Notes Shearson sale, Park-Bernet, New York, 26.XI.1955; Vis. Coll. 374.1.D9831.6So, as Portrait of Lady Frances Seymour, Countess of Southhampton) Larsen notes a replica (Longleat, Coll. Marquess of Bath) (Vis. Coll. 374.1.D9831.6Th, as Portrait of Lady Isabella Rich)
[Dyck Pa] _______. Portrait of the Princess of Orange. private collection. She holds a lute (very partly visible). very unimp. (Vis. Coll. 374.1.D983.60r[c])
[Dyck Pa] _______, attr. Portrait of Katherine, Countess of Chesterfield (m.1667) and Lucy, Countess of Huntingdon. private collection. One holds a lute (same view of the lute as in the portrait of the Princess of Orange) (exh London RAA 1953/54: Flemish Art, 1300-1700. no. 134)
[Dyck Copy Pa] _______, after. Portrait of Two Women. Dublin NGI. One of them has a lute (sort of back view). (B. Boydell. Music and Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland. Dublin 1985. p. 30 [small reproduction])
[Jordaens Pa] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Portrait of the Family van Noort. Kassel Gemäldegalerie. Jordaens, with a lute, and the family of his father-in-law. He married Katherina van Noort. (E. Herzog. Die Gemäldegalerie des Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Kassel. Hanau 1969. pl. 29, as 1616. Notes that the painting was restored in 1964/66, when much overpainting was removed.)
[Jordaens Pa] _______. Jordaens and his Family. Madrid Prado. Jordaens as a very handsome young man holds a lute. (Bernt vol. II, pl. 601; exh Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, 1986: Portretten van echt en trouw ... Ed. E. de Jongh. p. 286 [not exhibited]; M. Praz. Conversation Pieces ... University Park PA 1971. p. 115 [fine color reproduction]; Newsweek. Great Museums of the World. Prado. New York 1968. p. 144 [fine color reproduction]; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 348 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1969, pp. 203-204) Note also an engraving by J. Watson of a related (lost) painting, with a similar lute player. (The family has gotten much larger). (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1969, p. 202)
[Jordaens Pa] _______. Jordaens and his Family. St. Petersburg Hermitage. Jordaens holds a lute. (1962 catalog, Dutch and Flemish Schools. pl. 19 [fine color reproduction])
[Jordaens Copy Dr] _______, Copy. A Young Woman Playing a Lute. private collection. drawing. The lute has an almost scroll head. She is related to the woman in the Jordaens School painting, below. (d'Hulst 1974. cat. C43, pl. 520; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1969, p. 207)
[Jordaens School Pa] _______, School. Family Portrait. location unknown. Includes a woman playing an archlute. She is related to the young woman in the drawing in a private collection (d'Hulst C43). Lousy painting. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1969, p. 205; Leppert Theme. no. 377 [not illus.])
[Rombouts Pa] Rombouts, Theodoor (1597-1637). Man Tuning a Lute. Philadelphia, Johnson Coll. Genre portrait/figure, with pipe and tankard. Possibly a Five-Senses allegory: Taste=tankard, Smell=pipe, Touch=knife, Hearing=lute, Sight=gaze. (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 1016 [ok reproduction]. Considers this and the Antwerp versions originals, the version in Dunkirk, a copy; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. no. 60, p. 398 [fine color reproduction], as ca.1625-30; Imago musicae4 [1987] 278) Version in Antwerp KMSK (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965. p. 133 [ok reproduction], as Atelier of Rombouts; Imago musicae 4 [1987] 279 [poor reproduction]). Version in Dunkirk MBA (Imago musicae 4 [1987] 279 [poor reproduction]). Version in Paris Louvre (Imago musicae 4 [1987] 278 [poor reproduction]) Copy (sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 18-19.V.1914, as Honthorst)
[Seghers-Does Pr] Anton van der Does (1610-1680) after Gerard Seghers (1591-1651). Portrait of Jacques de Saint-Luc, age 25. engraving (oval). He plays a theorbo-lute (partly visible). (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 150 [ok reproduction])
[BI Antwerp n.d.] Adriaen Collaert (ca.1560-1618) after Johannes Stradanus (Jan van der Straet) (1532-1605). Allegorical Title Page with a Composition (the motet Nata et grata) by J. Pevernage, from Encomium musices. Antwerp, P. Galle, n.d. engraving. Decorated with an enormous number of musical instruments, including several lutes. (Frankel no. 39; Kinsky p. 152 [small reproduction]; Komma p. 112 [fuzzy reproduction]; Pincherle p. 61 [ok reproduction]; MGG I, Taf. XXII/3 [very small reproduction]; facsimile: Cambridge 1943 [The Harrow Replicas, 6], as ca.1590)
[BI Prague 1606] Sadeler, Aegidius II (1568-1629). Colophon of Vestigi delle antichita di Roma. Prague, Aegidius Sadeler, 1606. engraving. Includes a very partly visible lute among the objects which flank the putti which flank the cartouche. very unimp. (IB vol. 72/2 Supplement, no. 7201.162, p. 252)
[Ae II Sadeler Pr] Sadeler, Aegidius II (1568-1629). Portrait of Matthaeus Wacker a Wackenfels. engraving and etching. Includes a lute among the many objects in the border. (Hollstein [Dutch] XXII, no. 342, p. 87 [ok reproduction]; IB vol. 72/2 Supplement, no. 7201.349, p. 205)
[Ae II Sadeler Pr] _______. Portrait of Sigmund Bathory. engraving. Includes a very partly visible lute among the many objects in the border. very unimp. (IB vol. 72/2 Supplement, no. 7201.285, p. 94; Hirth no. 1449)
NOTE: Many of the Scenes of Everyday Life are probably allegorical.
Architectural Fantasies: See also Scenes of Everyday Life, Carnival.
[P I Neefs-F II Francken] Neefs, Pieter I (ca.1578-ca.1659) and Frans II Francken (1581-1642). Architectural Fantasy. Brussels art market (1929). Includes, front and center, a promenading couple. The man plays a lute. Ballegeer notes that the architecture is based on a painting by Hans Vredeman de Vries (Vienna KH). (J. C. M. Ballegeer. "Enkele voorbeelden van de invloed van Hans en Paulus Vredeman de Vries op de architectuurschilders in de Nederlande gedurende de XVIe en XVIIe eeuw." Gentse Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheidkunde 20 [1967] 59 [minuscule reproduction, with also the painting by Vredeman de Vries])
[H I van Steenwijck] Steenwijck, Hendrik I van (ca.1550-1603). View of an Imaginary Town Square. Dessau, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie. Includes a man promenading with a lady, carrying a lute; and a group with singers and a lute player. (B. Werche, ed. Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau. Die altniederländischen und flämischen Gemälde des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Kritischer Bestandskatalog, Bd. 2. Weimar 2001. cat. no. 36, color pl. 13 [fair reproduction], as 1588; Ballegeer 1967 [see above] p. 57 [minuscule reproduction])
[H II van Steenwijck Pa] Steenwijck, Hendrik II van (ca.1580-1649). View into a Garden through an Arch (1635). Frankfurt am Main HM. A man beneath the arch plays a lute. (Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main. Gemälde des Historischen Museums Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 1957. p. 95)
[H II van Steenwijck Pa] _______. View of an Imaginary Town Square (1614). The Hague, Mauritshuis. Two women sing and men play lute (back view) and cittern (?) (back view, barely visible). (H. Jantzen. Das niederländische Architekturbild. Leipzig 1910. fig. 11; exh The Hague 1994: Music and Painting in the Golden Age. p. 164 [ok reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. no. 76, p. 445 [ok color reproduction]) =? (New York art market [1997]) (Burlington 139 [1997] April ad p. iv [minuscule reproduction])
[H II van Steenwijck Pa] _______. Palaces beside a Town Square (1610). private collection. On the steps of a terrace a woman and a boy seem to sing, a man plays a tenor/bass viol and a woman plays a lute. (exh Rotterdam BvB, 1973: Hollandse en Vlaamse Kunst uit de 17e eeuw ... uit de verzameling F. C. Butôt. p. 139 [fair reproduction])
[P Vredeman de Vries-Vrancx Pa] Vredeman de Vries (1567-p.1630l, and Sebastian Vrancx (1573-1647). Architectural Fantasy. Antwerp KMSK. Includes a gentleman playing a lute. (exh Antwerp KMSK 2002: Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden. no. 211, p. 369 [color reproduction])
Banquets: [Vinckboons Pa] Vinckboons, David (1576-1631/33), attr.Outdoor Banquet. Copenhagen SMK. Includes a man playing a lute and perhaps a woman singing. (K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 96 [fair reproduction], as after David Vinckboons; Katalog over aeldre malerier. Copenhagen 1946. no. 776 [poor reproduction])
[Vrancx Pa] Vrancx, Sebastian (1573-1647). Banquet on a Loggia, with Comedians Entering. private collection. Musicians sing and play violin and double bass (?). There are a lute and a cornett (unplayed) beside them. There may also be a comedian with a lute. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 64 [1964] 276 [poor reproduction])
Carnival: See also Old Testament, Other; Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Garden Parties.
[Pa Venice Accademia] Flemish, early 17th century. Piazza with Carnival Revellers.
Venice Accademia. Includes two (separate?) lute players. (1970 catalog, vol. III, cat. and fig. 400)[Caulery Pa] Caulery, Louis de (op.1593-m.1621/22). Winter Carnival. Hamburg KH. An architectural fantasy. Musicians and revellers play several instruments, including a lute. (A. Hentzen, ed. Hamburger Kunsthalle. Meisterwerke der Gemälde-Galerie. Cologne 1969. no. 63 [fair reproduction], as ca.1620; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 64 [1964] 278 [fair detail])
[Caulery Pa] _______. Carnival in an Imaginary Town Square. Lawrence KA, University of Kansas Museum of Art. Includes a figure with a lute. (1962 Handbook, p. 63 [useless reproduction])
[Caulery Pa] _______. Carnival Scene in an Imaginary Italian Town Square. London art market (1974). An architectural fantasy. Includes two (separate) lute players, a xylophone (?) player and three (?) mounted trumpeters. (Marshall sale, Sotheby's 1973-4, no. 35, as ca.1604)
[Caulery Pa] _______. Carnival Scene in an Imaginary Italian Town Square. private collection. An architectural fantasy. Revellers play a lute and a woodwind instrument. There is a bell in the belfry of a clock tower. (exh Rotterdam BvB, 1973: Hollandse en Vlaamse Kunst uit de 17e eeuw ... uit de verzameling F. C. Butôt. p. 31 [fair reproduction])
[Caulery Pa] _______. Carnival. Berlin art market (1928). Includes players of viola da braccio, lute, cornett, xylophone (?), and pot and spoon or rommel pot. There is also a group of four mounted trumpeters. (Klarwill sale, Lepke, Berlin, 17.IV.1928)
[Miel Pa] Miel, Jan (1599-1664). Carnival in the Piazza Colonna in Rome. Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum. Includes barely visible figures playing a colascione and a tambourine. (G. Briganti et al. The Bamboccianti... Rome 1983. pp. 117-121; exh Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984: Masters of Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting. cat. no. 73, pl. 46 [color reproduction, useless], as ca.1645; Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 124 [fair detail] [after Briganti et al]; Vis. Coll. 374.1.M583.90[f])
[Miel Pa] _______. Carnival. Munich AP. Includes dancing revellers playing a colascione (man) and a tambourine (woman). (G. Briganti et al. The Bamboccianti ... Rome 1983. p. 116 [fair reproduction])
[Vrancx Pa] Vrancx, Sebastian (1573-1647). Carnival in Antwerp. Cologne WRM. Includes a reveller with a lute. A nocturnal street scene. (Cologne WRM. Katalog der niederländischen Gemälde von 1500 bis 1800 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum ... Cologne 1967. Abb. 197 [ok reproduction]) Another version (private collection) (exh Brussels MRBA, 1965: Le siècle de Rubens. cat. no. 303, p. 286 [minuscule reproduction])
Fêtes/Danses Champêtres: [Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). The Embarkment. London BM. drawing (cartoon for a tapestry). Includes a man playing a lute. (d'Hulst 1974. no. A92, pl. 101; Antwerp KMSKJaarboek1969, p. 243)
Garden Parties: See also New Testament, Parables -- Prodigal Son; Allegory, Love and Sex.
[Dr Munich SgS] Netherlands, ca. 1600 (perhaps David Vinckboons). Aristocratic Figures in a Castle Garden. Munich SgS. drawing. Includes a man in the background playing a lute. (100 Meisterzeichnungen aus der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München. P. Halm, B. Degenhart and W. Wegner, eds. Munich 1958. pl. 62 [ok reproduction])
[Pa Aachen Suermondt] Flemish, late-16th century. Garden Party. Aachen, Suermondt-Museum. painting on a clavichord lid (?). Includes several musicians, among them a lute player at a table. There is also a lute on the ground beside a group of three singers. (van Dijck-Koopman. no. 59 [poor reproduction])
[Pa London V&A] Flemish, early 17th century (style of Sebastian Vrancx). Garden Party in an Architectural Setting. London V&A. Includes a couple dancing, accompanied by musicians playing cello, violin and lute. The setting is very similar to the setting of the Vrancx-Matham Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (see above). (MgB IV/4, p. 167, as Tanz in Venedig; The New Grove vol. 9, p. 370 [poor reproduction], as "dance in the courtyard of a Venetian palace," ca.1620, probably Flemish)
[Pa Milan Sforzesco] Flemish (Antwerp), ca.1600. Scenes of Courtly Life. Milan, Castello Sforzesco, Civico Museo degli Strumenti Musicali. painting on the lid of a double virginal by Joannes Ruckers. Includes a group with singers and a lute player. (exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica ... no. I.53, p. 178 [small color reproduction]; Early Music 7 [1979] 461 [tiny reproduction])
[Pa New York Metropolitan] Flemish (Antwerp), late 16th century. Scenes of Courtly Life (1581). New York Metropolitan. painting on the lid of a double virginal by Hans I Ruckers (Antwerp 1581). Includes two (separate) lute players, an unplayed lute and a lute case. (Buchner Musical Instruments. no. 211 [the painting -- nice, big detail of the central group around the pergola], 210 [the virginal, ok reproduction]; L. Libin. "Remarks on the 1581 Hans Ruckers virginal at the Metropolitan Museum of Art," in: Hans Ruckers ... Peer 1998. pp. 76-84, with reproductions pp. 76 [the virginal], 82 [detail of the left half of the painting]; J. Montagu. The World of Medieval & Renaissance Musical Instruments. Woodstock NY 1980. p. 127 [the virginal]; Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 16 [1959] opp. p. 33 [fair detail of the central group in the painting]; The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 49 [1989-90] Summer pp. 14-15 [the virginal])
[Pa Nuremberg GNM] Flemish (Antwerp), late 16th century. Garden Party (1580). Nuremberg GNM. painting on the lid of a double virginal by Martinus van der Biest (Antwerp 1580). Includes singers and a lute player. A woman and a man tussle. She holds a lute and there is a lute on the ground beside them. The painting on the inside of the fallboard cover includes a trophy with crossed viol and lute. (J. Montagu. The World of Medieval & Renaissance Musical Instruments. Woodstock NY 1980. p. 125 [the virginal, not helpful for the painting]; Hans Ruckers ... Peer 1998. pp. 20, 63 [the virginal, not helpful for the painting]; MgB III/9, p. 153 [the virginal, not helpful for the painting])
[Pa location unknown] Franco-Flemish, late 16th century. Garden Scene with a Statue of Venus and Cupid. Amsterdam art market (1943). Includes a woman singing and a man playing a lute. (Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 87. Notes attribution to Louis de Caulery.)
[Ta private collection] Flemish (Brussels, atelier of Jacques Geubels), early 17th cent. Garden Scene. private collection. tapestry. Includes a gentleman playing his lute to his lady. (C. M. Ffoulke. The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries. New York 1913. opp. p. 106)
[Boels Pa] Boels, Frans (ca.1550-1594). Garden Party. Cracow, Biblioteka Czartoryskich. manuscript miniature. Includes a woman playing a lute. Perhaps other musicians. Perhaps an allegory of May or Spring. (catalog no. 148 [poor reproduction])
[Caulery Pa] Caulery, Louis de (op.1593-m.1621/22). Garden Party in the Park of an Estate/The Garden of Love. Olsztyn, Muzeum Mazurskie. Includes a woman serenading a man with her lute. There is also a woman singing and a man playing a violin. (Warsaw MN Bulletin 8 [1967] 26)
[Caulery Pa] _______. Scene on the Banks of a River. Saratov, Radischev Art Museum (?) . Includes a woman singing and a man playing a lute. They are copied in reverse from Hendrik I Hondius (1573-p.1649) after Paul Vredeman de Vries (1567-p.1630). "Dorica. 2. Auditus.," no. 2 of a series of the Five Architectural Orders and the Five Senses (q.v.). (1965 catalog, no. 72)
[Caulery Pa] _______. Palace Gardens with Dancing Company and Musicians. private collection. Women play virginal and lute and men play cello, violin and cornett. Aspects of the Five Senses. (exh The Hague 1994: Music & Painting in the Golden Age. no. 9, pp. 163 [fine color reproduction], 165 [ok b&w detail])
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Garden Party. Munich art market (1911). Includes a group having a picnic, with at least five singing and others playing virginal, harp, lute and flute. Elsewhere there are dancers accompanied by musicians playing violin, double bass, lute and perhaps more. A comedian has a lute. (Piloty sale, Helbing, Munich, 14.XI.11)
[F II Francken Pa] _______. Costume Ball/Costume Reception for a Turkish Ambassador. Milan art market (1928). Three separate figures play lutes (two of them with female singers). There are also musicians in a balcony. (La Raccolta Augusto Lurati. Milan 1928. pl. LV, as Frans I Francken. = Lurati sale, Pesary, Milan, 18-21.IV.1928)
[Grimmer Pa] Grimmer, Abel (1570/75-a.1619). Figures in a Park. London art market (1929). Includes a figure playing a lute. (Kay sale, Christie's, London, 22.III.1929)
[Vinckboons Pa] Vinckboons, David (1576-1631/33). Garden Party/The Garden of Love. Amsterdam RM. Includes a man playing a lute and a woman playing a plucked stringed instrument. In the background (separate figures), a man and a woman hold lutes. Suggests the Parable of the Prodigal Son. (C. Brown. Images of a Golden Past. New York 1984. p. 180 [ok reproduction, but rather small]; K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 93, as ca.1610; G. S. Keyes. Esaias van de Velde. Doornspijk 1984. fig. 41 [ok reproduction]; Haak p. 90 [fair reproduction]; exh Amsterdam RM, 1976: tot Lering en Vermaak. no. 72, p. 272, as ca.1610; Vis. Coll. 374.1.V741.90[d])
[Vinckboons Pa] ________, attr. Reception in a Garden. Genoa, Galleria del Palazzo Durazzo Pallavicini. A panoramic view. There are several musicians, including one playing a lute. (1967 catalog, fig. 91, p. 109)
[Vinckboons Dr] _______. Garden Party/Garden of Love. London V&A. drawing. Includes a lute player. (K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 94 [fair reproduction], as the Parable of the Prodigal Son; J. R. Judson. Dirck Barendsz. Amsterdam 1970. fig. 164)
[Vinckboons Pa] _______. Garden Party. Vienna, Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste. Two women sing, a woman plays a virginal, and men play lute, plucked string and flute. In the background a man plays a lute and a woman may sing. (van Dijck-Koopman. no. 62 [poor reproduction]; K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 99 [poor reproduction]; G. S. Keyes. Esaias van de Velde. Doornspijk 1984. fig. 42; D. Posner. Antoine Watteau. Ithaca NY 1984. p. 24; exh Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984: Masters of Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting. cat. no. 121, pl. 1 [fine color reproduction]; exh Pittsburgh, Frick Art Museum, 1986: Gardens of Earthly Delight ... Ed. K. J. Hellerstedt. p. 45 [minuscule reproduction, not exhbited]; MgB IV/4, p. 161; Art Bulletin 64 [1982] 252)
[Vinckboons Dr] _______. Garden Party. Zürich KH. drawing. A cavalier plays a lute and a musician plays a pipe (long, flairing slightly) and drum (unclear, seems to be shallow, vertical). (G. S. Keyes. Esaias van de Velde. Doornspijk 1984. fig. 43 [ok reproduction])
[Vinckboons Pa] _______. Garden Party (1619). private collection. A woman plays a lute and a man plays an orpharion. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1966 p. 88; Leppert Theme. no. 724 [not illus.])
[Vinckboons Pa] _______, attr. Merry Company in a Garden. Amsterdam art market (1984). Includes a woman singing and a man playing a lute. Perhaps the Parable of the Prodigal Son. (Die Weltkunst 54 [1984] 533 [small reproduction])
[Vinckboons Pa] _______, attr. Party on the Grounds of a Chateau. Lucerne art market (1981). Includes a figure with a lute (botch). very unimp. (sale Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 2-5.VI.1981; Die Weltkunst 51 [1981] 1383 [minuscule reproduction])
[Vinckboons-Bruyn Pr] Nicolaes de Bruyn (1565/1571-1652) after David Vinckboons (1576-1631/33). Festival in a Park Landscape. engraving. Includes at least five lute players here and there. Needs a big reproduction. (Muziek & Grafiek. no. 45, p. 95, as the dance of Mary Magdalene; exh The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 1986: Gardens of Earthly Delight. Ed. K. J. Hellerstedt. no. 16, p. 42 [reproduction not helpful for details]; van Dijck-Koopman. no. 61 [useless reproduction]; G. S. Keyes. Esaias van de Velde. Doornspijk 1984. fig. 45 [uselessly small reproduction]; exh Washington DC, etc., 1986-87: The Age of Bruegel ... p. 302 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; New Grove vol. 4, p. 673 [detail]) Engraved (1634) by Schelte Adams a Bolswert (ca.1586-1659?). (MgB IV/4, p. 167) Painted copy (after the de Bruyn engraving): Orleans MBA. (Leppert Theme. no. 741 [not illus.]; van Dijck-Koopman no. 60 [unhelpful reproduction]) Painted copy (after the de Bruyn engraving?): private collection. (Leppert Theme. no. 721 [not illus.], as before 1604) Painted copy by Martin I van Valckenborch (1535-1622) after the painting in Orleans. Tourcoing, Musée Municipal. (Leppert Theme. no. 709, pl. XXX) Drawing (private collection) (exh Washington DC, etc., 1986-87: The Age of Bruegel ... no. 119, p. 301 [reproduction not helpful for details ], as a study for the Bruyn print, ca.1602-04) Engraving by Heinrich Ulrich (m.1621) including the musical group (several singers and two men playing lutes) in the center foreground, in front of the tree. (MgB IV/3, p. 65 [fine reproduction]; Musica calendar 1977: 10-23 July [fine reproduction]) Engraving by Crispijn I de Passe (ca.1565-1637). Couple Dancing in a Park, from Hortus voluptatum (1599). The figures are the dancers in the left-center foreground, the musicians and fool behind them, and the three figures beside the tree at the extreme right foreground, reversed. (Hind no. 1434; Muziek & Grafiek no. 12, p. 62 [ok reproduction])
[Vinckboons-Bruyn Pr] Nicolaes de Bruyn (1565/1571-1652) after David Vinckboons (1576-1631/33). Feast in the Forest (1601). engraving. Includes at least one lute player. (Hollstein [Dutch] IV, no. 173, p. 22 [not helpful for details]; exh Pittsburgh, Frick Art Museum, 1986: Gardens of Earthly Delight... Ed. K. J. Hellerstedt. pp. 43 [minuscule, useless reproduction, not exhibited], 69 [minuscule detail reproduction])
[Vinckboons-C I de Passe Pr] Crispijn I de Passe (ca.1565-1637), after David Vinckboons. Musicians and Dancers in a Garden. engraving. There is a lute player in the foreground and figures playing bass viol, violin, cittern (?), lute and flute in the background. (Hirth no. 1434)
[Vrancx Pa] Vrancx, Sebastian (1573-1647). Gathering in the Gardens of an Estate. Copenhagen SMFK. Two women and two boys sing and men play rebec (?), lute and curtal. There are a lute case and a cornett on the ground. (T. F. Heck, et al. Picturing Performance ... Rochester NY 1999. end papers [fair reproducton]; M. Remnant. Musical Instruments of the West. London 1978. p. 206 [detail]; Budapest SM Bulletin 18 [1961] 57)
[Vrancx Pa] _______. Carnival Revellers in the Gardens of an Estate. New York art market (1965). A reveller plays a guitar. Among a group at a picnic, a woman sings and a man plays a lute. (Old Master's Gallery, New York, Opening Exhibit, 1965. p. 19 [small color reproduction, not helpful])
Hunts and Hunters: [Vrancx Dr] Vrancx, Sebastian (1573-1647). Grand chasse au cerf. location unknown. drawing. Shooting in an enclosure. Includes a hunter with a curved horn hung from a strap. Beside the men in the shooting blind, figures sing and play the lute. (Schwerdt vol. III, pl. 239 [fine color reproduction], as ca. 1620)
Landscapes: [Pa Dessau AG] Flemish, 17th century. Music Party in a Landscape. Dessau, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie. Two women sing and men play violin, harp, lute and flute. (B. Werche, ed. Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau. Die altniederländischen und flämischen Gemälde des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Kritischer Bestandskatalog, Bd. 2. Weimar 2001. no. 417, p. 81 [poor reproduction])
[Lauwers Dr] Lauwers, Balthasar (1578-1645). Landscape with figures. Düsseldorf art market (1964). drawing. Figures in or getting into a boat play a chitarrone and hold a little plucked stringed instrument. (C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1964, cat. no. 38, pl. 30 [fine reproduction])
[Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Landscape with Figures/The Park of the Château de Steen. Vienna KH. Includes a woman holding a lute. On the ground: violin/viola, lute, music. The castle is imaginary, not Steen. (D. Posner. Antoine Watteau. Ithaca NY 1984. p. 113; A. Stix. Meisterwerke aus Oesterreich. Zürich 1949. pl. 96? [fair reproduction]; Newsweek. Great Museums of the World. Art History Museum, Vienna. New York 1969. p. 128 [color reproduction]; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 179 [not exhibited]; exh London, Tate, 1949: Art Treasures from Vienna. fig. 40 [fair reproduction], as ca.1635-38 or ca.1632; Art Bulletin 64 [1982] 252) Engraved Bolswaert [probably Schelte Adams]. In the engraving the woman holds a guitar instead of a lute. (Hirth no. 1688) Variant (private collection, deposited in Antwerp, Rubenshuis) (exh Brussels MRBA 1965: Le siècle de Rubens. no. 214, p. 203 [tiny reproduction])
[Vinckboons Pa] Vinckboons, David (1576-1631/33). Park Landscape. Warsaw MN. Includes a woman and a lute. (exh Dresden, Albertinum, 1972: Europäische Landschaftsmalerei 1550-1650. no. 118 [fair reproduction]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1966. p. 83 [poor reproduction])
[Vinckboons Pa] _______. Merry-Making at the Edge of a Woods. Pommersfelden, Schloss Weissenstein, Schönborn Coll.. Three women sing and two men play lutes. (K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 19 [useless reproduction], as ca.1601; Brussels MRBA Bulletin 3 [1954] 39 [miserable reproduction])
[Vinckboons Pa] _______. Landscape with Many Figures. British art market (1957). Seems to include a lute player. (Burlington 99 [December 1957] Notable Works pl. VI [fair reproduction])
[Vinckboons Pa] _______. Landscape with Figures. location unknown. Includes a picnic in the middle of a road, with a lute player. (Leppert Theme. no. 730, pl. XXXIII [no location])
[Vinckboons-Bruyn Pr] Nicolaes de Bruyn (1565/1571-1652) after David Vinckboons. Festival in the Gardens of an Estate. engraving. Includes three women singing and two men playing lutes. The grouping is very similar to the party at the edge of a woods (Pommersfelden). (K. Goossens. David Vinckboons. Antwerp 1954. p. 12?) Copy (?) by Martin I van Valckenborch (1535-1622). Tourcoing, Musée municipal. (Leppert Theme. pl. XXX)
[Vinckboons-Frisius Pr] Simon Wynhouts Frisius (Simon de Vries) (ca.1580-1629) after David Vinckboons. Landscape with a Castle (Loenerslot). engraving. Includes a man playing a lute. (Hollstein [Dutch] VII, no. 230, p. 38)
Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees/Parades: [Alsloot Pa] Alsloot, Denis van (1570-1628). Ommegang at Brussels, 31 May 1615: The Triumph of Archduchess Isabella in the Grand' Place (1616). London V & A inv. 5928-1859. Includes a procession float with Apollo and the Muses, one of whom plays a lute. The "Muses" are amusingly masculine. (J. Laver. Isabella's Triumph. London, The Faber Gallery, 1947. opp. p. 22 [color detail of the float with the Muses]; Leppert Theme, pll. XLVIII, XLIX [detail]; The New Grove III, p. 395 [ok detail]; Early Music 3 [1975] July front and back covers [fine color detail], p. 327 [whole, minuscule reproduction])
Street Scenes: [Miel Pa] Miel, Jan (1599-1664). La Calcare (Roman Lime Kiln). private collection. Includes a figure on the roof of a stone structure playing a colascione. (G. Briganti et al. The Bamboccianti ... Rome 1983. pp. 106, 107 [fine color detail])
Views: [Vrancx Pa] Vrancx, Sebastian (1573-1647). Landscape with the Villa Medici, Rome (1615). Naples MN Capodimonte. Includes a man playing a lute. (Feest-bundel Dr. Abraham Bredius. Amsterdam 1915. pl. 84 [fair reproduction]; Budapest SM Bulletin 18 [1961] 56; Gentse Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheidkunde 20 [1967] 63 [minuscule reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 374.1.V955.81[b])
Architectural Fantasies: [P Vredeman de Vries-Vinckboons Pa] Vredeman de Vries, Paul (1567-p.1630) and David Vinckboons (1576-1629). Architectural Fantasy. Munich, Bayerisches Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Figures around a table include a woman singing and men playing violin, lute and flute. (exh Antwerp KMSK 2002: Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden. no. 213, p. 371 [color reproduction])
[P Vredeman de Vries Imitator] Vredeman de Vries, Paul, Imitator. Architectural Fantasy. private collection. Includes, front and center, a gentleman holding a lute. (exh Antwerp KMSK 2002: Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden. p. 167 [color reproduction, not exhibited])
Ateliers: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Angels.
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642), attr. Atelier/Picture Gallery. private collection. There is an unplayed lute. Fame stands beside the easel, brandishing a straight trumpet. (S. Speth-Holterhoff. Les peintres flamands de cabinets d'amateurs au XVIIe siècle. Brussels 1957. fig. 25 [fair reproduction])
Balls (and Court/CivicDances): [Caulery Pa] Caulery, Louis de (op.1593-m.1621/22). A Ball at the Court of Henri IV. Rennes MBA. Five couples dance, accompanied by musicians playing violin, bass viol (?), two lutes, and one more instrument. (F. Boucher. 20,000 Years of Fashion. New York [ca.1966]. p. 250 [minuscule reproduction]; Dufourcq Musique. vol. I, pp. 142-43 [large color reproduction, but with page crease], as French, late 16th century, Bal a la cour des Valois; Early Music 5 [1977] April front and back covers [fine color reproduction]) Another version (London art market) (Early Music 26 [1998] 284-5 [ok reproduction]) Another version (copy?) attr. Johann Matthias Kager (1575-1634) (Eger, Dobó István Vármúzeum Muzeum (1960 catalog: Guide et catalogue de la Galerie des tableaux à Eger. unnumbered pl. [miserable reproduction]).
[Caulery Pa] _______. Ball. Paris art market (1958). The dancers are accompanied by musicians playing double bass, tenor viol, viola da braccio, lute and one more. (sale, Giroux, Paris, 20-22.XI.1958)
[M Franck-G Franck] Franck (Francken), Maximilian (m.1651) and Gabriel Franck (Francken) (ca.1590-1639).
Ball. Karlsruhe SK. Musicians play two viole da braccio, harp, lute, flute, and perhaps more. (W. Flemming. Deutsche Kultur im Zeitalter des Barock. Potsdam 1937. p. 213 [poor reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1582-1642). Ball. Antwerp, Museum Mayer van den Bergh. Musicians play three lutes (of different sizes) and perhaps two other instruments. (Leppert Theme. cat. no. 200, pl. XXIX, as Bride goes to Dance)
[F II Francken] _______. Ball. Bayreuth, Schloss (loan from Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, previously in Bamberg). Musicians play violin, double bass (seated), lute, and perhaps more. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 432, p. 94 [not useful for details] =? Vis. Coll. 374.1.F857.90[e]))
[F II Francken Pa] _______. Ball. private collection. Musicians play violin and lute (and look intensely at one another). (Härting Francken. cat. no. 434, p. 34 [very small reproduction], as 1610's?. Notes sale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 5.XII.1961, no. 466, pl. XIX)
[F II Francken Pa] _______, attr. Ball. Paris art market (1977). Musicians play violin, double bass (seated), and lute. Perhaps more. The group of musicians is very similar to that of Härting cat. no. 432 (Bayreuth/Munich). (Härting Francken. cat. no. 433, p. 94 [small, useless reproduction], as perhaps by Frans III Francken. Notes sale Palais Galliera, Paris, 26.III.1977, no. 25 [with reproduction]. =? sale Christie's, London, 23.VII.1965 [see next entry])
[F II Francken Pa] _______. Ball. London art market (1965). Musicians play two viole da braccio, double bass, lute, flute and perhaps more. (sale, Christie's, London, 23.VII.1965, lot 89 [with reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] _______. Ball. Vienna art market (1931). Musicians play two viole da braccio, double bass (seated) and two lutes. (Strauss sale, Kende, Vienna, 20-22.X.1931)
[F II Francken Pa] _______. Ball/Party with Dancers. New York art market (1989). With carnival revellers. Musicians play violin, violin/viola, harp (poorly drawn), lute and flute. (Härting Francken. cat. 434A, color pl. 61 [ok reproduction], as 1608[?]. Notes sale, Christie's, New York, 11.I.1989, lot 86)
[F II Francken Pa-F II Pourbus] Francken, Frans II (1582-1642) and Frans II Pourbus (1569-1622). A Ball at the Court of Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella. The Hague, Mauritshuis. Five figures in a gallery. Two play lute and flute. unimp. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 431, p. 93, as ca.1610, as Frans II Francken; Leppert Theme no. 216, pl. XXVII [fair reproduction]; F. Boucher. 20,000 Years of Fashion. New York n.d. p. 250 [minuscule reproduction, cropped at the top and the bottom], as 1611; exh Antwerp KMSK 2002: Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden. cat. 51, p. 232 [color reproduction], as by Paul Vredeman de Vries and Frans II Francken, ca. 1610; exh Brussels MRBA, 1965: Le siècle de Rubens. cat. no. 89, p. 87 [useless reproduction], as representing a fête in Brussels, 1611; Vis. Coll. 374.1.F857.4Al)
[H II Francken] Francken, Hieronymus (Jerome) II (1578-1623). Ball (1607). location unknown. Musicians in a gallery play cello, three violins, harp, lute and woodwind. (Härting Francken. p. 178 [small reproduction])
[Pepyn Pa] Pepyn, Marten (ca.1575-1642/43). Ball. Moscow, Pushkin Museum. Musicians high in a gallery include players of viola da braccio and lute. (Burlington 132 [1990] 28 [small reproduction])
Banquets: See also Allegory, Senses (Hearing).
[Caulery Pa] Caulery, Louis de (op.1593-m.1621/22). Banquet with Lovers. Angers MBA. A woman sings (embraced by a man) and a man plays a lute. Musicians play violin, lute, and perhaps more. (Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie8 [1967] 26) This or a version of it in an ad for BASF/harmonia mundi 25 22286, Love, Lust, Piety & Politics -- Early Music4 [1976] 244, 370.
Coronations: [Leu Dr] Leu, Thomas de (1560-1612). The Coronation of Louis XIII. Paris art market (1931). Includes among the musicians a lute player and two trumpeters. (sale Drouot, Paris, 22.V.1931 [small reproduction])
[Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). The Coronation of Marie de'Medici at St. Denis. Paris Louvre. Includes two (?) lute players. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 120 [1992] 129; Vis. Coll. 374.1.R823.4Ma10) There is an oil sketch for this, with one lute player, in St. Petersburg, Hermitage. (Held cat. 67, fig. 68, as 1622; Vis. Coll. 374.1.R823.4Ma10SmD)
Domestic Scenes: [Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Merry Company. Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. drawing. A family around a table. Old and young sing and a man plays a lute. (d'Hulst 1974. no. A136, pl. 149, as ca.1635-40. Notes that it was used for The King Drinks [Kassel, Staatliche Gemäldegalerie] and was adapted for Soo d'oude ... [Munich AP].)
Inn (and Brothel) Interiors: [Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Figures around a Table beside a Fireplace. Oxford Ashmolean. drawing. In an inn? A woman plays a lute. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1969. p. 238)
[Rombouts Pa] Rombouts, Theodoor (1597-1637). Card Players. Warsaw MN. One of the figures plays a lute (with music). (Leppert Theme. no. 465 [not illus.]; National Museum in Warsaw. Catalogue of Paintings. Foreign Schools II. Warsaw 1969. no. 1072 [useless reproduction])
[Rombouts Pa] _______, attr. Card Game. Warsaw MN. Includes musical instruments in a pile on the floor: lute, musette, and flute. (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie. Malarstwo Obce. Warsaw 1929. fig. 21 [fair reproduction]; 1938 catalog, no. 156; J. Bialostocki et al. Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie. Galeria Malarstwa Obcego. vol. I. Warsaw 1954. pl. 30 [useless reproduction]; National Museum in Warsaw. Catalogue of Paintings. Foreign Schools II. Warsaw 1969. no. 1071 [minuscule, miserable reproduction]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 141; Leppert Theme. no. 473 [not illus.])
[Vinckboons Dr] Vinckboons, David (1576-1631/33). Tavern Scene. Berlin SMPK KsK. drawing Includes a woman at a tiny keyboard instrument (clavichord?) and a man playing a lute (and singing?). (van Dijck-Koopman no. 63)
[Wael Dr] Wael, Cornelis de (1592-1662). Interior with Cavaliers and Ladies Merrymaking, no. 24 from a book of drawings. London BM. drawing. Includes a man playing a lute. (London. British Museum. Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists, vol. II. London 1923. pl. LXXVIII [small reproduction])
Interiors (not Church, Inn): See also Allegory, Senses (Hearing).
[Balen Pa] Balen, Hendrik van (1575-1632). A Palace Interior with Ladies and Gentlemen Dancing. London art market (1974). There is a large group of musicians, including a lute player, accompanying a dancing couple. (sold, Christie's, London, 15.II.1974; Apollo 99 [1974] 387 [poor reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642), attr. Picture Gallery/Cabinet d'Amateur. Madrid Prado. Treble and bass viols hang on the wall. There is a lute and a stack of music books on a table. (S. Speth-Holterhoff. Les peintres flamands de cabinets d'amateurs au XVIIe siècle. Brussels 1957. fig. 11, as probably ca.1621)
[F II Francken Pa] _______, attr. Picture Gallery/Cabinet d'Amateur. private collection. Includes a cittern, lute and cornett on a table. Perhaps more. Five Senses aspects. (S. Speth-Holterhoff. Les peintres flamands de cabinets d'amateurs au XVIIe siècle. Brussels 1957. fig. 20 [unclear reproduction], as ca.1625)
[F II Francken-P Vredeman de Vries Pa] _______ (figures), and Paul Vredeman de Vries (1567-1630) (architecture), attr. Renaissance Interior with Figures. Turin, Galleria Sabauda. Includes figures playing twp violins, lute and perhaps a cornett (only a tiny bit visible). (exh Antwerp KMSK 2002: Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden. no. 215, p. 373 [ok color reproduction]; Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 18 [1967] 138 [poor reproduction])
[H II Francken] Francken, Hieronymus (Jerome) II (1578-1623). The Picture-Shop of Jan Snellinck (1621). Brussels MRBA. Includes a painting with a woman playing a lute, sitting beside a table. (HärtingFrancken. p. 179; S. Speth-Holterhoff. Les peintres flamands de cabinets d'amateurs au XVIIe siècle. Brussels 1957. fig. 7)
[H II Francken] _______. An Art Dealer's Shop/Cabinet d'Amateur. Helsinki, Sinebrychoffin Taidemuseo. Includes a painting of Mary Magdalen playing a lute, by the Master of the Female Half-Figures. (Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 12 [1994] 62, after the 1985 catalog of the Sinebrychoff Taidemuseo, frontispiece. Identifies the painting as the version in Hamburg [Kunsthalle].)
[H II Francken-P Vredeman de Vries Pa] Francken, Hieronymus (Jerome) II (1578-1623) (figures) and Paul Vredeman de Vries (1567-1630) (architecture). Renaissance Interior with Figures. Vienna KH. The figures are accompanied by musicians playing violin/viola da braccio and lute. (Haak p. 153 [small reproduction], as by Frans II Francken and Paul Vredeman de Vries; Härting Francken p. 179, as by Hieronymus II Francken and Paul Vredeman de Vries; C. de Tolnay. Pierre Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels 1935. pl. XX, fig. 35 [fair reproduction], as by Frans [II] Francken; exh Antwerp KMSK 2002: Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden. no. 212, p. not recorded [color reproduction], as by Paul Vredeman de Vries and Frans II Francken; MgB IV/4, p. 45 [ok color reproduction], as by Frans II Francken and Paul Vredeman de Vries; Vis. Coll. 374.1.F857.90[a], as by Frans II Francken)
[H II Francken and J I Brueghel Pa] Francken, Hieronymus II (1578-1623) and Jan I Brueghel (1568-1625). The Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella in a Picture Gallery. Baltimore WAG. Includes treble and bass viols hanging on a wall and a lute and a stack of partbooks on a table beside them. Similar to the painting attr. Frans II Francken in the Prado. (Härting Francken. p. 181, as by Hieronymus II Francken and Jan I Brueghel; S. Speth-Holterhoff. Les peintres flamands de cabinets d'amateurs au XVIIe siècle. Brussels 1957. fig. 12, as by Frans II Francken [figures] and Jan I Brueghel [animals and flowers]; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 186 [color reproduction, but not helpful; not exhibited], as ca.1610)
[Grimmer Pa] Grimmer, Abel (1570/75-a.1619). Interior with Figures. Rotterdam BvB. Musicians play a very small viola da braccio, bass viol, two lutes and a cornett? (Vis. Coll. 374.G885.90[a])
[Grimmer Pa] _______. Interior with Figures (1608). private collection. Dancers are accompanied by musicians playing small viola da braccio and lute. (S. Speth-Holterhoff. Les peintres flamands de cabinets d'amateurs au XVIIe siècle. Brussels 1957. fig. 2)
[Grimmer Pa] _______. Interior with Figures. London art market (1929). Musicians play viola da braccio, double bass, two lutes and one more musical instrument. (Kay sale, Christie's, London, 22.III.1929)
[Grimmer Pa] _______. Interior with Figures. London art market (1924). Musicians play viola da braccio, double bass and lute. (Armstrong sale, Christie's, London, 14.III.1924)
[H II van Steenwijck Pa] Steenwijck, Hendrik II van (ca.1580-ca.1649). Interior with a Lady Playing a Lute. Stockholm NM. She plays a small lute. There are also numerous unplayed musican instruments, including a lute. (van Dijck-Koopman. no. 67)
Parties/Music Parties: [Pa private collection] [Flemish, late 16th century]? Party with Dancers and Musicians. ex coll. R. T. Dart. painting on a harpsichord lid. Figures sing and play a keyboard instrument, lute and cornett. A comedian carries a lute-like plucked stringed instrument (concave head). (Lesure [German] no. 78, [English] pll. 69-70, as a Fête at the court of Henry IV[1553-1610]. Suggests that the lute player may be de Vaumesnil.)
[Coster Pa] Coster, Adam de (ca.1586-1643), attr. Candlelight Party. London art market (1961). Figures around a table. Two men, a woman and a child sing and a man plays a lute. (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 1597 [fair reproduction]; Burlington 97 [1955] March ad p. xii, as [Wolfgang?] Heimbach [ca.1613/15-p.1678]; Burlington 103 [1961] 188, as Heimbach)
[Coster-Vorsterman Pr] Lucas I Vorsterman (1595-1675) after Adam de Coster. Tric-trac players. engraving. Five figures around a table by candlelight. Includes a girl playing a lute. (de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. cat. no. 39, p. 204 [ok reproduction]; Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 1620 [ok reproduction]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965. p.126; Burlington 108 [1966] 252)
[Diepenbeck Dr] Diepenbeck, Abraham van (1596-1675). Group around a Table. St. Petersburg Hermitage. drawing. Includes a man playing a lute and perhaps a woman with a music sheet. (1955 catalog of Flemish 17th- 18th-century drawings, no. 180, pl. XXII)
[Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Musical Party. Oxford Ashmolean. drawing. At least one figure (a woman) sings, and a (singing?) woman plays a lute. (d'Hulst 1974. no. A206, fig. 221)
[Miel Pa] Miel, Jan (1599-1663). Masquerade. private collection. Includes comedians singing and playing two guitars and a lute. (G. Briganti, ed. 22 Dipinti di una raccolta privata. Rome 1958. frontispiece [color reproduction] and pll. VII-IX [with details])
[G van Valckenborch Pa] Valckenborch, Gilles van (ca.1570-1622). Musical Scene with Torch-Bearers. no location. A group of women sing and play spinet (?) and lute. A man plays a flute. There are numerous unplayed musical instruments including a lute. Perhaps more. (Haas Barock. p. 3 [poor reproduction], no location)
Angels: See also Saints, St. Cecilia.
[BI Antwerp n.d ] Theodoor Galle (1571-1633) after Jan van der Straet (Stradanus) (1523-1605). Annunciation to the Shepherds, from Encomium musices. Antwerp, P. Galle, n.d., no. 14. engraving. Angels sing and play musical instruments, including a lute (back view, partly visible). unimp. (facsimile: Cambridge 1943 [The Harrow Replicas, 6], as ca.1590; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica ... no. III.11, p. 224, as 1585/86)
[BI Antwerp 1598] Anon. Title page of Litaniae septem deiparae virgini musice decantandae. Antwerp, Pierre Phalese (the Younger), 1598. engraving. Angels play violin (viol-shaped corpus), cello (fretted neck), harp and lute. (Fraenkel no. 40 [ok reproduction]; MGG VIII, col. 1002 [poor reproduction])
[BI Antwerp 1611] Anon. Pass-partout title-page border of the Antwerp printer Joachim Trognaesius. engraving. Includes an angel playing a lute. (Fraenkel no. 41, for Pars Hiemalis Antiphonarii Romani ... Antwerp 1611)
[Pa Bremgarten] Netherlands Mannerist, 17th century. Annunciation to the Virgin. Bremgarten, Kirche des ehem. Klosters St. Klara. Several musical angels, including two playing lutes of different sizes. (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz, 54: Kanton Aargau IV. Basel 1966. p. 97 [poor reproduction], as 1627)
[Pa Poborst St Denijs] Flemish, first half, 17th century. Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin. Poborst, Parochiekerk St. Denijs. Angels play cittern, harp and lute (left-handed). (E. Dhanens. Kanton Sint-Maria-Horebefebe. Ghent 1971. [Inventaris van het Kunstpatrimonium van Oost-Vlaanderen, 7-8] Afb, 282) [ok reproduction]. Notes attribution to Maarten de Vos.)
[Balen Pa] Balen, Hendrik van (1575-1632). Don Alvaro de Bazán Praying with the Virgin. Mexico City, Academia de San Carlos. Includes an angel playing a lute, reading from a book held by a putto. (Archivio Español de Arte 39 [1966] pl. I after p. 164 [fair reproduction])
[Diepenbeck Dr] Diepenbeck, Abraham van (1596-1675). Assumption of the Virgin. private collection. Angels play violin, cittern, harp, lute and cornett. (exh Zürich, 1967: Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus schweizer Privatbesitz. no. 148)
[Dyck Pa] Dyck, Anthonie van (1599-1641). Virgin and Child with Angels. Rome, Accademia di S. Luca. Angels play violin and lute. unimp. (E. Larsen. The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck. Freren 1988. cat. 639, p. 261, as 1626-32; Vis. Coll. 374.1.D983.34[f]) Replica (West Palm Beach, Art Museum/Norton Gallery and School of Art) (E. Larsen. The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck. Freren 1988. cat. A 143/1, p. 455, as "a good studio replica")
[Dyck Pa] _______, attr. Glorification of St. Francis de Paul. London art market (1958). oil sketch. Several musical angels, including one playing a lute. (sale, Christie's, London, 25.VII.1958; Leppert no. 188 [not illus.]) Variant (sale, Fischer, Lucerne, 23-24.VIII.1928)
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Allegory of "Pictura sacra." Budapest SM. Depicts an artist's studio, with angels floating above on an indoor cloud, playing musical instruments, including a lute. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 361, p. 87, as ca.1616-20)
[F II Francken Pa] _______, attr. Holy Family with Musical Angels. Vienna art market (1936). Includes angels playing lute and flute. (sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 26-28.V.1936)
[F II Francken-J I Breughel Pa] _______, and Jan I Breughel. Virgin and Child with Angels in a Garland of Flowers. Berlin art market (1914). Includes an angel playing a lute. unimp. (sale, Lepke, Berlin, 24.II.1914)
[F II Francken School Pa] _______, Manner of. Virgin and Child with Angels. Rotterdam BvB. Angels sing and play cello, violin, lute and cornett. There is an unplayed cittern. The depictions are not first-rate. (Vis. Coll. 374.1.F8570,34[a])
[H II Francken Pa] Francken, Hieronymus (Jerome) II (1578-1623). Virgin and Child with Musical Angels. Dessau, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie. Angels sing and play cittern, harp (poorly depicted) and lute. (Härting Francken. p. 119 [small reproduction]; B. Werche, ed. Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau. Die altniederländischen und flämischen Gemälde des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Kritischer Bestandskatalog, Bd. 2. Weimar 2001. cat. 379, color pl. 5)
[Govaerts Pa] Govaerts, Abraham (1589-1626). Holy Family. Amsterdam art market (1959). Angels play harp and lute. Tiny detail. unimp. (sale, Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 24-25.VI.1959 [tiny reproduction])
[Knieper Ta] Knieper, Hans (doc.1578-m.1587). Allegory (comm. 1585). Stockholm NM. tapestry bed canopy. Angels sing and play violin, harp, lute, shawm and trumpet. (E. Lassen et al. Dansk kunst historie, II. Copenhagen 1973. opp. p. 88 [color reproduction])
[Loon Dr] Loon, Theodor van (1585-a.1660). Holy Family with Musical Angels. Rotterdam BvB. drawing. Angels play a cello/double bass, violin and lute (with a peg scroll). The Christ Child has a music book and sings. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 374.1.L877.35[a])
[Loon Pa] _______. Assumption of the Virgin. private collection. Includes angels playing lute (right) and trumpet (left). (Leppert Theme. no. 401, pl. IX)
[Loon Pa] _______, attr. Assumption of the Virgin. private collection. Angels sing and play cello/double bass, violin/viola and lute. (Leppert Theme. no. 403, pl. X)
[Rubens Pa] Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Adoration of the Eucharist. Chicago AI. oil sketch for the Triumph of the Eucharist series. Two of the angels play lutes (one right-handed, one left-handed). very unimp. (Held cat. 111, color pl. 12 [ok color reproduction], b&w fig. 114 [clearer], as ca. 1620. Related to the angel concert in Potsdam; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. no. 20, p. 269 [color reproduction])
[Rubens Pa] _______. Angels. Potsdam, Sanssouci, Gemäldegalerie. oil sketch. Six musical angels (plus singing putti), two of them playing lutes. (Held cat. 112, fig. 116, as ca.1626-27. Sketches made for two tapestries of the set used to cover the high altar of the church of the Descalzas Reales [Madrid] during Holy Week. Note also the oil sketch in Chicago AI, above.; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 270 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited) Engraving by Cornelis Schut (1597-1655) (Hollstein [Dutch] XXVI, no. 108, p. 141 [small reproduction])
[Rubens Pa] _______. Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin. St. Petersburg Hermitage. oil sketch. Includes six musical angels, one of them playing a lute. very unimp. (Held cat. 374, fig. 365, as ca.1611; CRLB vol. VII, no. 46, fig. 129)
[Schut Pa] Schut, Cornelis I (1597-1655). Assumption of the Virgin. Antwerp, Cathedral. Angels play harp, lute, straight trumpet, reverse-curve trumpet. unimp. (Leppert Theme. no. 587 lists fiddle, violone, harp, reverse-curve horn and two straight trumpets [he's probably correct]; Vis. Coll. 374.1.Sch88.31As)
[Seghers Pa] Seghers, Gerard (1591-1661). The Virgin giving the Scapular to St. Simon Stock. Cologne WRM. Angels sing and play lute and shawm (?). (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Katalog der niederländischen Gemälde von 1550 bis 1800 ... Cologne 1967. fig. 136)
[D I Teniers Pa] Teniers, David I (1582-1649), attr. Nativity. Brussels art market (1932). Angels sing and play double bass and lute. Putti sing and play violin, straight trumpet and kettledrums. Also attributed to Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610). (sale Fievez, Brussels, 16-17-XII.1932; Arte illustrata 3 [1970] 63)
[D I Teniers Pa] _______. Rest on the Flight to Egypt (1620). location unknown. Angels sing and play double bass, violin, harp and lute. Putti play recorder and kettledrums. (Arte illustrata 3 [1970] 62 [small reproduction], notes reproduction in Svenska Konstsamlingarnas Historia, II. Stockholm 1930. p. 131 and pl. 50)
[O van Veen-G van Veen Pr] Gijsbert van Veen after Otto van Veen. Allegory of the Marriage of Christ with the Church. engraving. An angel above at the left plays a bass viol (?). Angels above at the right sing and play organ and lute. (Hollstein [Dutch] XXXII, no. 11, p. 142)
[H Wierix Pr] Wierix, Hieronymus (a.1553-1619). The Christ Child Surrounded by Angels playing Musical Instruments. engraving. One of them plays a lute. (Muziek & Grafiek no. 17a, p. 67 [small reproduction])
Animals: [D I Teniers Pa] Teniers, David I (1582-1649), attr. Music Party (Cats and an Owl). New York art market (1966). Six cats sing and one plays a shawm. Not played: lute (and case), bagpipe, shawm (?). There is a tiny pochette hanging on the wall. (Connoisseur 163 [1966] November ad p. lxxii)
Comedians: [Dyck Dr] Dyck, Anthonie van, (1599-1641). Street Scene in Palermo, from his Italian Sketchbook (1624). London BM. fol. 60. drawing. A comedian plays a huge plucked stringed instrument (the size of a chitarrone but with only three strings -- a colascione?). (C. Brown. van Dyck. Ithaca NY 1982. p. 85 [detail]; exh Antwerp, London, 1999: van Dyck ... p. 62 [not exhibited])
Musicians (amateur and professional): [Pa Jacksonville Cummer] S. Netherlands, first half, 16th century. Four Figures Making Music. Jacksonville FL, Cummer Gallery of Art. A woman plays a cittern, and men play bass viol (? -- only partly visible), lute (a cavalier leering at the lady) and flute (large). (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 985 [fair reproduction], as "Caravaggesque Unknown, South Netherlandish [circle of Romouts]")
[Pa Rome Museo degli Strumenti Musicali] Flemish, first half, 17th century. Tric-trac Players. Rome, Museo degli Strumenti Musicali. Includes a man holding a lute. (exh Rome, 2000-01: Colori della Musica; Dipinti, strumenti e concerti tra Cinquecento e Seicento. no. 46, p. 211 [ok color reproduction]. Notes attributions to Daniel Seghers and Theodoor Rombouts.)
[Ta Brussels MR] Flemish (Brussels, atelier Conrad van der Bruggen, cartoon by Jacob Jordaens), first half, 17th century. A Gentleman on a Balcony Playing the Lute for his Lady, no. 4 of Scenes of Country Life. Brussels MR d'Art et d'Histoire. (Brussels. Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire. Catalogue des tapisseries, XIe au XVIIIe siècle. ed. M. Crick-Kuntziger. [Brussels, 195-?] no. 55, pl. 62, as first quarter, 17th century; Connoisseur 169 [1968] 253 [fair reproduction], as ca.1627-30, notes exh Ottawa NGC 1968) Another, Vienna KH. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1969, p. 238 [small reproduction]) Another, Nachod, Castle, Dining Hall (Topographie der historischen und Kunst-Denkmale im Königreich Böhmen, XXXVI: Nachod. Prague 1911. p. 90)
[Ta art market] Flemish (Brussels), ca.1600. The Opposing Armies of Scipio and Hannibal. London art market (1996). tapestry. In the border opposing medallions depict (left) a hunt, with a hunter blowing a curved horn; and (right) a gentleman playing a lute, promenading in a garden with his lady. (Burlington 138 [1996] June ad p. xxvi [ok reproduction])
[F II Francken Pa] _______, attr. Musicians (fragment of a larger work). private coll. A boy sings, a woman plays a virginal, and a man plays a lute. (Härting Francken. cat. no. 430, p. 366 [small reproduction], as ca.1600-1610. Notes 1931 catalog of the Thomee collection, Marburg. Ed. K. Luthmer. no. 105, pl. 84, as attr. Frans III Francken and dated 1660)
[Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678). Musicians in a Gallery/Design for a Wall Decoration. Cambridge, Fitwilliam. drawing. Figures sing and a woman plays a lute. There is also what looks like the scroll of a double bass (it might belong to the lute). (d'Hulst 1974. cat. no. A219, pl.234 [ok reproduction], as ca.1645; Connoisseur 169 [1968] 255; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1969. p. 240; Simiolus 12 [1981-82] 145) -- cf. the drawing of A Young Woman Playing a Lute for a tall lute with a scroll. (d'Hulst 1974. cat. C43, pl. 520).
[Jordaens Dr] Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678), attr. Architectural Setting with a Gentleman Playing the Lute for his Lady, on a Loggia. London BM. drawing. (d'Hulst 1974. cat. B21 recto, pl. 464 -- one of the doubtful drawings, probably a studio drawing)
[Jordaens Dr] _______. Scene with Musicians. Düsseldorf art market (1964). drawing. A woman plays a tiny spinet and a man plays a lute. unimp. (sale, Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1964. pl. 29 [ok reproduction])
[Noort-de Jode Pr] Pieter de Jode (1572/73-1634) after Adam van Noort (1562-1641). Musical Company. engraving. A boy sings, a woman plays a virginal and a man plays a lute. (de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. p. 76 [fine reproduction], as perhaps allegory of Touch and Hearing) Etched and engraved copy by Gillis van Breen (op. ca.1595-ca.1622) (de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. p. 77 [ok reproduction, not exhibited]) Note also Jan Theodor de Bry, "Musica mortales recreat ...," which predates the van Noort and where the lute player is left-handed. (de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. p. 77)
[Rombouts Pa] Rombouts, Theodoor (1597-1637). Musicians. Dessau, Staatliches Museum Schloss Mosigkau. Two men and a woman sing, a woman plays a guitar and men play theorbo lute and recorder. (Leppert Theme no. 470, pl. [X]LI [photo reversed]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 154, as by G. Seghers or Rombouts)
[Rombouts Pa] _______. Two Musicians. Lawrence KA, University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art. A woman sings and a man (singing?) plays a guitar. There is an unplayed lute prominently in the foreground. (F. Grunfeld. The Art and Times of the Guitar. New York 1969. p. 103; Leppert Theme. no. 471, pl. XXXV; Nicolson Caravaggism. pl.1008 [fair reproduction]; exh Boston, MFA, 1993-94: The Age of Rubens. p. 397 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Brussels MRBA, 1965: Le siècle de Rubens. no. 179, p. 164; exh Cleveland MofA, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. no. 58, as ca.1620-25; 1962 Handbook, p. 59, as ca.1630; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 129; Early Music 13 [1985] 381 [fair reproduction], as ca.1616-25; Vis. Coll. 374.1.R662.90[d])
[Rombouts Pa] _______. Three Figures Making Music. Munich AP. Two sing and one plays a guitar. There is a prominent unplayed lute. (Bernt pl. 977; F. Grunfeld. The Art and Times of the Guitar. New York 1969. p. 101; Harrison & Rimmer no. 121; Kinsky p. 177 [fair reproduction]; Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 1012 [fair reproduction]) Replica Reims, Musée St. Denis (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 135)
[Rombouts Pa] _______. Two Figures Making Music. Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. One plays a guitar and the other plays a (poorly depicted) lute. unimp. (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 1010 [poor reproduction])
[Rombouts Pa] _______. Musicians. Rome, Galleria Corsini. They hold a violin (?), lute, woodwind and a (music) book, and they consult. (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 1017 [poor reproduction]; exh Rome, 2000-01: Colori della Musica; Dipinti, strumenti e concerti tra Cinquecento e Seicento. no. 31, p. 197 [ok color reproduction]. Notes many previous attributions, including Matthias Stomer; exh Cleveland M of A 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. p. 156 [not exhibited]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 134)
[Rombouts Pa] _______. Card Players. St. Petersburg Hermitage. Includes a figure tuning a lute. (NicolsonCaravaggism. pl. 1025 [fair reproduction])
[Rombouts Pa] _______, attr. Musicians around a Table (1627). London art market (1978). Men sing and play theorbo (botch) and recorder . There are partly visible musical instruments on the table: viol, lute and flute. For similar lutes see Rubens, The Education of Marie de'Medici (Paris Louvre); the Rombouts Copy, below; and the painting by Gysbert van der Kuyl (New York art market [1976]). (Apollo 107 [1978] March ad p. 79; Early Music 5 [1977] 251; Early Music 10 [1982] 87)
[Rombouts-Bloswert Pr] Schelte Adams à Bolswert (ca.1586-1659) after Theodoor Rombouts (1597-1637). "Musica docta facit per sex discrimina vocum ..." engraving. A man and a woman sing and there is a prominent unplayed lute. (de Jongh-Luijten Mirror. no. 42, p. 217 [fine reproduction], with a reproduction of the lost painting, p. 218; Muziek & Grafiek no. 14, p. 63 [ok reproduction]; Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 131 [fair reproduction])
[Rombouts Circle Pa] _______, Circle. Figures Making Music around a Table. Jacksonville FL, Cummer Gallery of Art. A woman sings and men play violin, guitar, arch-lute and flute. (Nicolson Caravaggism. pl. 1026 [poor reproduction])
[Rombouts Copy Pa] _______, Copy. Figures Making Music around a Table. Valenciennes MBA. A woman sings and men play a violin, a theorbo (botch) and a flute. (Antwerp KMSK Jaarboek 1965, p. 136) The same figures appear in a painting on the New York art market (1976), attributed to Gysbert van der Kuyl (1604-1673). (Early Music 4 [1976] 411 [fair detail])
Putti: See also Mythology, Other.
[F II Francken Pa] Francken, Frans II (1581-1642). Dance of Nymphs and Cupids. Florence, Uffizi. One of the Cupids plays a lute. (Härting Francken. no. 376, p. 351 [small reproduction], as Allegorie des Geistes, ca. 1615; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [1964] 155 [fair reproduction])