Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011301Musical Scene
About the Artwork
The Utrecht artist Gerrit van Honthorst was internationally known as a portrait painter, but he also gained a reputation as a painter of raucous musical scenes and parties. This drawing was once part of an album of compositional types that the artist showed to prospective patrons. Though the cheerful theme of a man and a woman sharing a song seems innocent, such unions often had amorous or lascivious connotations in 17th-century Holland.
Inscriptions
inscribed “no 27” in black chalk, lower right on antique laid tan textured paper
Provenance
1625-55 to c. 1900: Studio of Gerrit von Honthorst art market, Belgium Habolt & Co., Paris, France Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands March 4, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590–1656)
- Date
- 1625–55
- Medium
- black ink wash over pen and brown ink and black chalk over graphite on gray-brown paper with white heightening, incised
- Dimensions
- Support: 23.3 x 26.8 x 0.3 cm (9 3/16 x 10 9/16 x 1/8 in.); Image: 17.3 x 20.2 cm (6 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.6
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