Een violist en een fluitist musicerend
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
6.2; 51; 41.5
About this artwork
drager: hoogte 51 cm x breedte 41,5 cm
Art Historical Context
In the cozy intimacy of an 18th-century Dutch, Julius Henricus Quinkhard *Een violist en een fluit musicerend* (A Violinist and a Flist Performing, 1755) captures musicians lost in harmonious duet. Painted in oil on panel—a favored medium for its smooth surface and durability in smaller-scale works—this 51 x 41.5 cm gem evokes the refined leisure of the Dutch Enlightenment era. Quinkhard (1728–1815), a Deventer-based artist, specialized in such genre scenes, blending portrait-like precision with everyday elegance, continuing the Netherlands' rich tradition of domestic narratives post-Golden Ag...