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Description: | The attribution of this fine painting is uncertain due to its poor state, although it certainly relates to a composition by Gerrit Dou, Rembrandt's first pupil. He specialised in small-scale highly detailed works packed with incident, of which this is a typical example. A musician in a green satin shirt plays a fiddle. Beyond a birdcage on the left, two men can be seen through a window, possibly a priest and a monk, although in other versions one of them grinds colours. The chest in the foreground is covered by an elaborate rug and carved with putti and a goat. | Subjects: | everyday life; figure; allegory (music) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dou, Gerrit (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1613-1675) Æ Attributed to after Previously attributed to Dou, Gerrit (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1613-1675) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8869... | Go to resource |
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