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attributed to Johannes Ruckers, 1640
Virginaal met aan de binnenkant van de deksel de spreuk MUSICA LABORUM DULCE LEVAMEN en rond het klavier beplakt met papier met ornamenten met dolfijnen. Los op onderstel.
- Artwork typekeyboard instrument, musical instrument, stringed instrument, virginal
- Object numberBK-KOG-595
- Dimensionslength 150 cm x width 48 cm x height 22 cm, length 106 cm x width 42.5 cm x height 78 cm
- Physical characteristicspoplar, spruce, oak, bone, paper, metal, leather


Identification
Title(s)
Virginal
Object type
Object number
BK-KOG-595
Description
Virginaal met aan de binnenkant van de deksel de spreuk MUSICA LABORUM DULCE LEVAMEN en rond het klavier beplakt met papier met ornamenten met dolfijnen. Los op onderstel.
Inscriptions / marks
inscription: ‘MUSICA LABORUM DULCE LEVAMEN’
Catalogue reference
- Edward L. Kottick, George H. Lucktenberg, 'Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums', Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997, p. 161-162
- H. J. Scharp, 'Spinet. Vermoedelijk antwerpsch werk uit de eerste helft der 17e eeuw', Gedenboek ter gelegenheid van het 75-jarig bestaan, Amsterdam: Kampen & Zoon, 1933, p. 192-194
- Edwin M. Ripin, Denzil Wraight, G. Grant O'Brien, Howard Ferguson, John Caldwell, Howard Schott, William Dowd, 'Early keyboard instruments', The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, New York, London: Norton, 1989, p. 52
- Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, 'Een virginaal uit de tijd van Veermer, Tijdschrift Oude Muziek, 2023/1, p. 10-11
- Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, Tamar Hestrin-Grader, Paul van Duin, Miriam Orlando, 'Reconciling Past and Present: the Rijksmuseum 1640 Ioannes Ruckers Muselaar Project', 4th Annual Conference COST FP1302 WoodMusICK, Preservation of Wooden Musical Instruments: Ethics, Practice and Assessment, Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels, October 5-7, 2017, p. 55-59
- Philip Steadman, 'Allegory, Realism, and Vermeer's Use of the Camera Obscura', Early Science and Medicine, jrg. 10, nr. 2, Optics, Instruments and Painting, 1420-1720 Reflections on the Hockney-Falco Thesis (2005), p. 287-313: 292-293, afb. 4
- Grant O'Brien, ‘The authentic instruments from the workshops of Hans and Ioannes Ruckers’, Mededelingen van het Ruckers-Genootschap 3 (1983), p. 37-44: 44
Creation
Creation
- musical instrument maker: attributed to Johannes Ruckers, Antwerp
- musical instrument maker: attributed to Andreas Ruckers (I), Antwerp [rejected attribution]
Dating
1640
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Material and technique
Physical description
poplar, spruce, oak, bone, paper, metal, leather
Material
Dimensions
- length 150 cm x width 48 cm x height 22 cm
- length 106 cm x width 42.5 cm x height 78 cm
Acquisition and rights
Credit line
On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap
Copyright
Documentation
- Edward L. Kottick, George H. Lucktenberg, 'Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums', Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997, p. 161-162
- H. J. Scharp, 'Spinet. Vermoedelijk antwerpsch werk uit de eerste helft der 17e eeuw', Gedenboek ter gelegenheid van het 75-jarig bestaan, Amsterdam: Kampen & Zoon, 1933, p. 192-194
- Edwin M. Ripin, Denzil Wraight, G. Grant O'Brien, Howard Ferguson, John Caldwell, Howard Schott, William Dowd, 'Early keyboard instruments', The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, New York, London: Norton, 1989, p. 52
- Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, 'Een virginaal uit de tijd van Veermer, Tijdschrift Oude Muziek, 2023/1, p. 10-11
- Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, Tamar Hestrin-Grader, Paul van Duin, Miriam Orlando, 'Reconciling Past and Present: the Rijksmuseum 1640 Ioannes Ruckers Muselaar Project', 4th Annual Conference COST FP1302 WoodMusICK, Preservation of Wooden Musical Instruments: Ethics, Practice and Assessment, Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels, October 5-7, 2017, p. 55-59
- Philip Steadman, 'Allegory, Realism, and Vermeer's Use of the Camera Obscura', Early Science and Medicine, jrg. 10, nr. 2, Optics, Instruments and Painting, 1420-1720 Reflections on the Hockney-Falco Thesis (2005), p. 287-313: 292-293, afb. 4
- Grant O'Brien, ‘The authentic instruments from the workshops of Hans and Ioannes Ruckers’, Mededelingen van het Ruckers-Genootschap 3 (1983), p. 37-44: 44
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