MeMoMu_HOHI_017 MUSIC-MAKING COUPLE _ MANUEL MARIA MEHAU 2020s / WILLEM CORNELISZ DUYSTER 1620s
Fia Ford
13 h / 24.10.2025, 18:59
Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Dutch, b. 1599 Amsterdam, d. 1635 Amsterdam
Music-Making Couple, c. 1620s
Oil on oak
Dimensions: 43 x 36 cm
Staatliche Museen, Jagdschloss Grunewald, Berlin, Germany
Willem Cornelisz Duyster was a Dutch painter of the Golden Age known for his refined interior scenes and depictions of military and domestic life. This painting, Music-Making Couple, captures the quiet elegance of early seventeenth-century Amsterdam society. A seated woman and a standing man are shown in refined attire, surrounded by instruments that suggest leisure, education, and harmony—frequent themes in Dutch art of the period. Duyster’s attention to surface texture, his soft treatment of light, and the subdued palette exemplify the delicate tonal sensibility of Amsterdam painting in the decades following Caravaggio’s influence. In his private life, Duyster remained based in Amsterdam, where he worked until his untimely death from plague at age thirty-six. Kuva vähem
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