Art Institute of Chicago
The Organ Player and His Wife
Israhel van Meckenem the YoungerLinkedCulture matchlcp-05aec119625d
- Date
- 1495–1503
- Medium
- Engraving in black on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 28699
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This husband-and-wife duo performs an intimate domestic concert, jointly playing a diminutive pipe organ with four stops. The wife operates the two bellows in time to the music, giving voice to the notes, while her husband creates the melody on the keyboard. He is clad in a housecoat and comfortable slippers and she wears a cozy fur-trimmed dress. Shown at the same scale and working in tandem, they symbolize a harmonious marriage. The little dog listening attentively is both an emblem of loyalty and a realistic detail of their well-to-do home.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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