The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Musical Scene
1625–55
Location: not on view
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In 17th-century Holland, scenes of men and women playing music together often had amorous connotations.Description
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.- 1625-55 to c. 1900Studio of Gerrit von Honthorstart market, BelgiumHabolt & Co., Paris, FrancePrivate Collection, Amsterdam, NetherlandsMarch 4, 2019the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Peters, Emily. “Acquisitions 2019: Drawings.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 20-21. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 21.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.6