Title

The strolling musicians, c.1635. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn.

Caption

The strolling musicians, c.1635. A sympathetic inquiry into the lives of impoverished people, including beggars. Two musicians, one playing a hurdy gurdy, and the other the bagpipes, lean before an absorbed looking family with a toddler to perform. Light from inside the home illuminates the dim, intimate moment, thus highlighting the profiles of the players.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A24_256

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,0Mb (6,3Mb) / 13,6in x 16,5in / 4089 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors Europe portrait standing female women woman people male boy boys child children group job man men family music arts night doorway infant baby babies class playing entertainment musician art guy occupation listening museum Netherlands Dutch color infancy door doors bagpipes busker threshold century musical instrument musical instruments profession print concept time of day B&W hardship stringed instrument 17th century Working Class Colour black & white black and white B W working-class golden age white and black etched seventeenth century etching hurdy-gurdy itinerant social class street entertainer TGN outside etching portrait hurdy gurdy Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn Rembrant van Rijn Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt 1630s Dutch Golden Age playing an instrument Rembrandt van Rijn Heritage Art Van Ryn Paul Rembrandt Rijn Rembrandt Harmensz van Low Countries van Rijn Rembrandt Harmensz. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Rembra Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa