Details

Object type

painting

Title

A Young Man Singing to a Violin

Artist/Maker

Jacob Ochtervelt artist

Culture/School

Dutch

Place Associated

Netherlands, Rotterdam (place of manufacture)

Date

1666

Materials

oil on panel

Dimensions

framed: 430 x 383 x 70 mm;unframed: 257 mm x 206 mm

Description

Painting entitled 'A young man singing to a violin', by Jacob Ochtervelt. Painted in Rotterdam, where the artist lived 1655-72, this is an excellent example of 'fine painting' by one of the many Dutch 'Little Masters' of the Golden Age in the seventeenth century. Its size classes it as a 'cabinet picture' for hanging in a small room. The young man is wearing fancy and expensive clothes. Pictures such as this are classed as 'polite genre'. It may have been intended as one of a series of the five senses representing sound or hearing. It is thought perhaps to be a self-portrait, as it is similar to other portraits of Ochtervelt

Credit Line/Donor

Bequeathed by Jane Graham Gilbert, 1877

ID Number

590

Location

Kelvingrove Dutch Art Gallery