A Blind Hurdy-gurdy Player and his Family
Also titled Een blinde draailierspeler met zijn familie
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
1648
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 166 mm x width 129 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- 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
Music echoes in all of these street scenes. Three prints show a hurdy-gurdy player accompanied by his family or followed by a crush of children going door to door to play a tune and ask for alms. Often these musicians were blind and hence had a guide dog, as seen in the print at the upper left. There the child in the doorway beams with delight.
