Cleveland Museum of Art
A Musical Company
Jacob OchterveltLinkedCulture matchlcp-cb26a50be695
- Date
- c. 1668
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 155941
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Despite the calm demeanor and elegant disposition of the figures, this interior scene probably represents the interior of a brothel, signaled by the row of female portraits in the background, rarely found in other paintings of this period. The depiction of music provides another clue to the subject. The recorder and violin, played without scores, were perceived as cruder instrumentation and associated with prostitution, versus the elegant and complicated musicmaking seen in the work by Pieter de Hooch in the museum's collection.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Provenance
- 1991-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | 1990-1991: (Otto Naumann, Ltd. and Galerie Sanct Lucas, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | After 1947 -1990: Dr. Karl Josef Steger, Vienna, sold to Otto Naumann, Ltd. and Galerie Sanct Lucas | Probably early twentieth century - after 1945: Baron Rudolf von Gutmann [1880-1966], sold to Dr. Karl Josef Steger
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