A Bagpiper Playing for Four Dancing Monkeys

anonymous, 1617

The oboe is often associated with pastoral images because its sound recalls that of shawms and bagpipes. A bagpiper features in this print. From the 1650s onwards, composers increasingly used the oboe with its penetrating, nasal voice to add lustre to bucolic and festive scenes.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-2018-860
  • Dimensionsheight 226 mm x width 167 mm
  • Physical characteristicsgravure met tekst in boekdruk

Identification

  • Title(s)

    A Bagpiper Playing for Four Dancing Monkeys

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-2018-860

  • Description

    Doedelzakspeler met vier dansende apen. Een hand uit de wolken strooit met noten. Embleem in Jacob Cats, Silenus Alcibiadis sive Proteus. Genummred XLI en p. 83.

  • Catalogue reference

    Hollstein Dutch 106

Creation

  • Creation

    • printmaker: anonymous
    • after design by Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

  • Dating

    1617

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    gravure met tekst in boekdruk

  • Dimensions

    height 226 mm x width 167 mm

Explanatory note

  • Gebruikt als illustratie in: Jacob Cats, Silenvs Alcibiadis sive Protevs., humanae vitae ideam, emblemate trisarem variato, oculis subjeciens. Eerst uitgegeven in Middelburg bij Johannis Hellenij, 1617.

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Gift Han de Vries Collection, Amsterdam

  • Acquisition

    gift 2018-03-12

  • Copyright

    Public domain

Documentation

  • Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, 'The Rijksmuseum to acquire and display the Han De Vries collection of oboes', CIMCIM Bulletin, January 2019, p. 22-24

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