ID: 700001944 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001944	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Allegorisch musicerend gezelschap (easel painting (painting by form); Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Leiden 1606-07-15 - Amsterdam ...; 1626; Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands); SK-A-4674; RM001.collect.5224)

Note: Led by a young woman, a group of people are playing music in a room. She is reading the music from the sheet, singing and beating time. The two men are accompanying her on their instruments - the young man on the harp and the older man on a viola da gamba. An older woman is reading over the girl's shoulder, listening attentively with her hand on her chin. In the foreground is a violin, a lute and a pile of books. This is an early work by Rembrandt from 1626. He made it when he was twenty years old and signed it with the monogramMonogramA monogram (from the Greek 'monogrammos' meaning 'comprising only lines') is a design formed from the combined initial letters of the first name and surname of an artist, for example 'CVE' for Caesar van Everdingen. Some artists' monograms show the letters joined, others show them intertwined. Yet others include an additional symbol. Dirk Vellert, for example, often included a star in his monogram RH: Rembrandt Harmensz. The painting was only 'discovered' to be by Rembrandt in 1936. Two vertical halves make up this panel, the join can be clearly seen in the centre.

Titles:

Allegorisch musicerend gezelschap (preferred,C,U,RP,Dutch-P,U,U)

Musical allegory (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

easel painting (painting by form) [300177435] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by form>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1626

Creator Display:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Leiden 1606-07-15 - Amsterdam 1669-10-08) [preferred,VP]

painter Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch painter, printmaker, 1606-1669) [500011051]

Locations:

Current: Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands) [500246547] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: SK-A-4674; RM001.collect.5224

Credit Line: Aankoop met steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt en de Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

Display Materials: oil paint on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 63.5 x 48 cm

Events:

exhibition: Het Kinderportret in Noordelijk Nederland in de 16e en 17e eeuw, 1953-12-19 - 1954-01-18

exhibition: Het ontstaan van het Amsterdams peil in de 17e eeuw; 2010-07-15

exhibition: Rimpatrio dell' 'Annunciazione'; Rimpatrio dell' 'Annunciazione'; Rimpatrio dell' 'Annunciazione'; 2005-09-24 - 2006-01-09

exhibition: De Twaalf Maanden van Hans Bol; 2004-12-18 - 2005-02-27

exhibition: Goya- Prophet der Moderne - I; 2005-07-12 - 2005-09-28

exhibition: Rembrandt & Oranje; 2006-04-01 - 2006-07-31

exhibition: Heroines; 2011-03-08 - 2011-06-12

General Subject:

allegory (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	musicians [300025666]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the performing arts>) (AAT)

	men (male humans) [300025928]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	women (female humans) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	harp (chordophone) [300042047]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), sound devices (equipment), <sound devices by acoustical characteristics>, chordophones) (AAT)

	viola da gamba [300042237]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), sound devices (equipment), <sound devices by acoustical characteristics>, chordophones, lutelike chordophones, lutelike chordophones: bowed, fiddles, viols) (AAT)

	lute (chordophone) [300042101]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), sound devices (equipment), <sound devices by acoustical characteristics>, chordophones, lutelike chordophones, lutelike chordophones: plucked, <lutelike chordophones with long neck: plucked>) (AAT)

	violin [300042215]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), sound devices (equipment), <sound devices by acoustical characteristics>, chordophones, lutelike chordophones, lutelike chordophones: bowed, fiddles, violin family instruments) (AAT)

	books [300028051]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>) (AAT)

	music, sheet [300026430]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by form>, <documents for oral or performed works>, <documents for musical works>) (AAT)

Copyright: Public domain

Provenance: aankoop in 1976

Inscriptions: signatuur en datum RH 1626

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Additional Notes:

Dutch ..... Allegorisch musicerend gezelschap. Links speelt een man is oosterse kleding en tulband op een viola da gamba. Naast hem staat een jonge man met een harp. Een jonge vrouw zit naast een tafeltje met een opengeslagen liedboek op schoot en zingt. Achter haar kijkt een oude vrouw met een doek over het hoofd toe. Op de voorgrond liggen muziekinstrumenten (luit, viool) en stapels boeken. Aan de muur een schilderij van de vlucht van Lot uit Sodom.

Sources and Contributors:
Allegorisch musicerend gezelschap	........ [VP,Rijksmuseum]
	........ Rijksmuseum XML files (2012)
	........ Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-) www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/SK-A-4674; accessed 11 September 2012
Musical allegory	........ [VP]
	........ Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-) www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/SK-A-4674; accessed 11 September 2012

Subject: ....... [VP,Rijksmuseum]

....................... Rijksmuseum XML files (2012)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-) http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-A-4674?lang=en; accessed 12 September 2012
Dutch	..... [VP]
	..... Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-) www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/SK-A-4674; accessed 11 September 2012