Music cabinet and piano with a relic of St Cecilia
Also titled Muziekkast en piano met een reliek van Sint-Cecilia
Antoine Bord (Toulouse, 1814–1888)
Pierre Joseph Hubert Cuypers (Roermond (Limburg), 1827–1921)
1858 - 1859
- Medium
- pine (wood), cloth, glass, oak (wood)
- Classification
- musical instrument
- Dimensions
- height 165.2 cm x width 139.8 cm x depth 65 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of P.J.H. Cuypers
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Pierre Cuypers, the Rijksmuseum architect, designed these pieces of furniture as engagement and wedding presents for his second wife. The Gothic Revival style and the reliquary on the piano express their deeprooted Catholicism. The images on the piano case – the Annunciation and scenes from the life of St Cecilia, patron saint of music – allude to the difficult choice of Cuypers’ wife between marriage and a musical career.
