The Merry Fiddler
Also titled Een vrolijke vioolspeler
Gerard van Honthorst (Utrecht, 1592–1656)
1623
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 107.2 cm x width 88.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The man wearing extravagant Italian-looking clothing takes us by surprise. He appears from behind a tapestry and leans out of the window. He tries to engage with the viewer in order to clink glasses. So lifelike and convincing is Honthorst’s rendering that the fiddler seems to have slipped out from the frame of the painting to join us.
