Het Gehoor, Jan Saenredam, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1575 - 1607

Title(s)

Het Gehoor
De vijf zintuigen (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

2/5

Object number

RP-P-OB-10.637

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 102

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

De vrouwelijke personificatie van het Gehoor spelend op een klavecimbel (klavichord?) . Ze wordt begeleid door een luitspelende man.

Artist

• print maker: Jan Saenredam
• after design by: Hendrick Goltzius
• Cornelius Schonaeus (mentioned on object)

Place

Northern Netherlands

Dating

1575 - 1607

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 175 mm × width 124 mm

What

• hearing, listening (one of the five senses)
• clavichord, harpsichord
• lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo
• making music; musician with instrument
• neck-gear: collar (+ women's clothes)
• clothing for the upper part of the body (with NAME) (+ women's clothes)
• pearl; pearl necklace (+ women's clothes)
• ear-rings (+ women's clothes)

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Jan Saenredam to Roelandt Savery, p. 76, cat.nr. 102