Fantasy Portrait of a Woman with a Flute, and Musical Instruments

Fantasy Portrait of a Woman with a Flute, and Musical Instruments

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• Is vruecht om voeghen goet

RP-P-OB-10.287

collector's mark: Lugt 240

This sheet features impressions of both sides of a single medallion. Its pendant presents a fantasy portrait of a bagpiper, of which only an impression of the portrait side is known. They complemented each other and together also had an amusing function: the verses rhyme and together the images are full of erotic allusions. Flutes and bagpipes symbolized male genitalia.

Hollstein Dutch 244

• print maker: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object), Haarlem
• after design by: after design of Hendrick Goltzius

1598 - 1602

gravure

diameter 46 mm

Public domain

• Hollstein Dutch 244
• The Illustrated Bartsch 137-c
• The Illustrated Bartsch 213-c
• New Hollstein Dutch 289
• Hollstein Dutch 245

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200487414