# The Merry Fiddler

- By: Gerard van Honthorst (Utrecht, 1592–1656)
- Date: 1623
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 107.2 cm x width 88.3 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-180--5443ebda5154f908c56c0b357db9f53e)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/LAWVX/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.