Friday, October 25, 2024

Musical Subjects - II

Caspar Netscher
Violin Player
ca. 1665
oil on panel
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Michael Willmann
Study for Allegory of Music
ca. 1680
drawing
Kunstmuseum, Basel

Césarine Henriette Flore Davin
Portrait of Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni
ca. 1804
oil on canvas
Frick Collection, New York

Jan Kupecký
Young Man playing a Violin
ca. 1706
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Jan Kupecký
Woman with a Viola d'Amore
ca. 1720-30
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Gerard Seghers
St Francis in Ecstasy with Musical Angel
ca. 1619
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Figure with Violin
before 1666
drawing
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Louis-Léopold Boilly
The Folly of the Day
(Violinist as Death)
1797
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Gerrit van Honthorst
The Merry Fiddler
1623
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Gerard Hoet
Musicians behind a Balustrade
1660
drawing
(study for ceiling painting)
Morgan Library, New York

Pieter Lastman
King David making Music in the Temple
1618
oil on panel
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Giovanni Battista Buoncuore
Musical Group
ca. 1695
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, Virginia

Jan Harmensz Muller after Cornelis van Haarlem
Arion playing the Harp
ca. 1589-90
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Pieter Barbiers
Musical Group
ca. 1819
oil on canvas
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Jacob Ochtervelt
Couple making Music
ca. 1671-75
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

David Teniers the Younger
Interior with Woman and Child making Music
ca. 1644-45
oil on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Where My Books Go

All the words that I gather,
     And all the words that I write,
Must spread out their wings untiring,
     And never rest in their flight,
Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,
     And sing to you in the night,
Beyond where the waters are moving,
     Storm darkened or starry bright.

– W.B. Yeats (1892)