Cleveland Museum of Art
The Organ Player and His Wife
Israhel van MeckenemLinkedCulture matchlcp-bf7549d64d2c
- Date
- 1495–1500
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136501
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In a cozy, domestic setting, an organ player plays a portative with four registers. His wife operates the two bellows, producing the wind that gives the instrument its sound. The activity of one would be inconceivable and pointless without the other. The music they create together--as well as the faithful dog placed prominently in the foreground--refers to marital harmony.
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- Credit line
- Delia E. Holden Fund
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