The Organ Player and His Wife
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
image: 16.6 × 11 cm · sheet: 16.6 × 11 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Delia E. Holden Fund
Accession Number
1960.73
Tags
male
About this artwork
In a cozy, domestic setting, an organ player plays a portative with four registers. His wife operates the two bellows, producing the wind that gives the instrument its sound. The activity of one would be inconceivable and pointless without the other. The music they create together--as well as the faithful dog placed prominently in the foreground--refers to marital harmony.