A Quartet of Singers, Lute players, and Bell Ringers Playing in a Tavern by Candlelight

mid to late 17th century

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This sheet is one of eighty brush drawings on blue paper by the prolific draftsman and painter Leonaert Bramer that belonged to an album that was disbanded and dispersed in the 1980s. The album is known as the Hofstede de Groot album as it belonged to the eminent Dutch art historian Cornelis Hofstede de Groot around 1930. The drawings in this album are among Bramer's earliest known drawings and some of them may have been created on his early trip to Italy (1619-1627). The drawings, diverse subjects from genre to mythology, to religious scenes, were all rendered within rectangular frames drawn on the larger sheet. Their painting-like compositions suggest that they may have been intended as ideas for paintings.

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Title: A Quartet of Singers, Lute players, and Bell Ringers Playing in a Tavern by Candlelight
Artist: Leonaert Bramer (Dutch, Delft 1596–1674 Delft)
Date: mid to late 17th century
Medium: Brush drawing in gray ink, heightened with white bodycolor; framing lines in brush and gray ink with white bodycolor
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 13/16 in. (21 × 30 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019
Object Number: 2019.276.4
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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