Cleveland Museum of Art
The Strolling Musicians
Rembrandt van RijnLinkedCulture matchlcp-adad34d778fc
- Date
- c. 1635
- Medium
- etching and drypoint
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148804
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Although 17th-century Holland produced neither noteworthy composers nor renowned performers, rarely has another culture produced so many visual images of music as the Dutch. In this depiction of a pair of itinerant musicians wearily shuffling from door to door, Rembrandt reveals his compassionate understanding of human frailties. The hurdy-gurdy and bagpipes, as depicted here, were frequently associated with itinerant beggars and blind street singers in paintings and prints of the period.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- Julian Marshall (1836-1903), London, stamped (Lugt 1494), verso, lower left, in black. James Reiss (1812-1899), Manchester and London, stamped (Lugt 1522), verso, lower right, in purple. Charles C. Cunningham, Jr., Hartford, Conneticut, stamped (not in Lugt). purchased from (R. M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara, California)
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