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A Couple Making Music
Also titled Musicerend paar
Cornelis Troost (Amsterdam, 1696–1750)
1743
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 8.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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-making flourished within families during the 18th century. The man here evidently plays the recorder; his wife turns the corner of a page of a music book. Behind them a full bookcase can be seen behind a slightly open curtain. Besides being a sign of refinement, the making of music together can serve as an allusion to a harmonious marriage.
