Musical Scene
1625–55
- Medium
- black ink wash over pen and brown ink and black chalk over graphite on gray-brown paper with white heightening, incised
- Dimensions
- 17.3 × 20.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-209191
The Utrecht artist Gerrit van Honthorst was internationally known as a portrait painter, but he also gained a reputation as a painter of raucous musical scenes and parties. This drawing was once part of an album of compositional types that the artist showed to prospective patrons. Though the cheerful theme of a man and a woman sharing a song seems innocent, such unions often had amorous or lascivious connotations in 17th-century Holland.
Provenance
Severance Fund, 2019.6
Registry history
- 1625–55 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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