Musical Subjects - IV

Paulus Moreelse
Flute Player
1636
oil on panel
Staatsgalerie im Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg

Valentin de Boulogne
Apollo disguised as a Shepherd
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Antoine Le Nain
The Village Piper
1642
oil on copper
Detroit Institute of Arts

Hendrik Goltzius
The Muse Euterpe
1592
engraving
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Jan de Bray
King David in Procession,
bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem
ca. 1670
oil on canvas
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Cola dell'Amatrice
King David making Music for the Lord
ca. 1510
tempera on panel
Princeton University Art Museum

Gino Severini
Harlequin
1922
gouache on paper
Yale University Art Gallery

Giacomo Ceruti (il Pitocchetto)
Portrait of a Cellist
ca. 1745-50
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Antiveduto Grammatica
The Theorbo Player
ca. 1612
oil on canvas
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Gerrit van Honthorst
Merry Group behind a Balustrade
ca. 1623-24
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Franz Joseph Degle
Self Portrait
1778
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Dirck van Baburen
The Concert
ca. 1623
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi
Country Scene
ca. 1720
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

William Morris Hunt
Portrait of Ellen M. Brown
1874
oil on canvas
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Cosimo Gamberucci
St Cecilia
ca. 1605-1620
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Crociani, Museo Civico, Montepulciano

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Study for Orpheus
ca. 1870-74
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Seven paters seven times,

Send Mary by her Son,

Send Bridget by her mantle,

Send God by His strength,

Between us and the faery host,
Between us and the demons of the air.

– W.B. Yeats (1897)