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Description: | This work is rather problematic to attribute or to date. Some details are quite convincingly seventeenth-century, especially the light hitting the female lute-player in a very Caravaggesque manner; similar alluring musicians appear in the works of the Utrecht Caravaggists, such as Gerrit van Honthorst and Henrick Terbrugghen. Yet the overall appearance seems rather contrived, almost a pastiche: the joint pose of the seated man and the woman on the far left is particularly awkward. Expert analysis is needed to check the green-blue colours that have the appearance of Prussian blue, thus suggesting a late date. There also appear to be bronze flecks in the paint. It is doubtful whether such a merry company would have found much favour in the nineteenth century, but the possibility of this being a deliberate forgery cannot be ruled out. | Subjects: | interior; still life; figure; animal (dog) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Rombouts, Theodoor (Flemish painter and printmaker, 1597-1637) Æ Attributed to after Previously attributed to Hals, Dirck (Dutch painter, 1591-1656) Previously attributed to Rombouts, Theodoor (Flemish painter and printmaker, 1597-1637) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8638... | Go to resource |
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