Music

Matthias Stom
Music Makers
ca. 1640-50
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Josse van Craesbeeck
Lute Concert
ca. 1650
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Marcantonio Raimondi after Francesco Francia
Young and Old Shepherds making Music
ca. 1510
engraving
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Francesco Francia
Three Musicians in Landscape
ca. 1490
drawing
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Benno Joachim Theodor Fischer
Young Men playing Violin Duet
1850
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Minya Dièz-Dürhkoop
Women at the Piano
1908
platinum print
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Karl Müller
Woman at the Piano
ca. 1880-90
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Félix Vallotton
Le Piano
ca. 1895
drawing
(print study for Les Instruments de Musique)
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques
des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Johann Elias Ridinger
Bassoon Player
ca. 1740
mezzotint
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Albrecht Dürer
Bagpiper
1514
engraving
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Marcantonio Raimondi
Orpheus playing to Animals
ca. 1505-1506
engraving
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Dirck Hals
Violin Player
1629
drawing
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Félix Vallotton
Le Violon
ca. 1895
drawing
(print study for Les Instruments de Musique)
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques
des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Anonymous French Artist
King David making Music before the Lord
ca. 1470-80
pigment and ink on vellum
(manuscript leaf from Psalter)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Georges de La Tour 
Le Vieilleur
1631
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Franz Brun
The Muse Euterpe
ca. 1580
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Antony

     Enough: my life's not long enough for more.

     Thou say'st thou wilt come after: I believe thee,

     For I can now believe whate'er thou say'st,

     That we may part more kindly.

Cleopatra                                      I will come:

     Doubt not, my life, I'll come, and quickly too;

     Caesar shall triumph o'er no part of thee.

Antony

     But grieve not, while thou stay'st,

     My last disastrous times:

     Think we have had a clear and glorious day,

     And Heaven did kindly to delay the storm

     Just till our close of evening. Ten years' love,

     And not a moment lost, but all improved

     To th'utmost joys: what ages have we lived!

     And now to die each other's; and so dying,

     While hand in hand we walk in groves below,

     Whole troops of lovers' ghosts shall flock about us,

     And all the train be ours.

Cleopatra

     Your words are like the notes of dying swans,

     Too sweet to last. Were there so many hours

     For your unkindness, and not one for love?

Antony

     No, not a minute. – This one kiss – more worth

     Than all I leave to Caesar.                                                   (Dies)

Cleopatra

     Oh tell me so again,

     And take ten thousand kisses for that word.

     My Lord, my Lord: speak, if you yet have being;

     Sigh to me, if you cannot speak, or cast

     One look. Do anything that shows you live.

Iras

     He's gone too far to hear you,

     And this you see, a lump of senseless clay,

     The leavings of a soul. 

– John Dryden, All for Love (1677)