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Personal Reflection
My kid really loved this one. Because of the dog. The whole world of 17th-century Dutch bourgeois life in one frame. Music as social grace. The spaniel wandering at the bottom the only one not performing.
About This Artwork
The large family portrait (familieportret) was a prestigious Dutch genre, expensive to commission and designed to project social standing, domestic harmony, and cultural refinement all at once. Music-making was a central symbol of bourgeois virtue: it denoted education, leisure, and emotional cultivation. The instruments visible: harpsichord, bass viol, were costly items. What’s interesting: the harpsichord lid in the background appears to be painted with a scene itself - a painting within a painting, a common device for showing connoisseurship. And look at the spaniel, completely indifferent to the whole performance.
- Artist
- Abraham van den Tempel
- Location
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Date experienced
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